{"id":3698,"date":"2025-02-10T11:45:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/?p=3698"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:18:54","slug":"going-back-to-aol-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/going-back-to-aol-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Going back to AOL 4.0&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Signing Into AOL 4.0 in 2025! (Original Software + NINA Servers)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Uly3hbtzKQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I recently came across a project called <a href=\"https:\/\/nina.chat\/\">NINA<\/a> which has setup servers that the original AOL 4.0 software can talk to. After setting up a Windows 98 VM, installing AOL 4.0, and then configuring it to talk to NINA&#8217;s servers, I was able to log into AOL 4.0 for the first time in a very long time. It was pretty wild to hear the iconic &#8220;Welcome&#8230; You&#8217;ve Got Mail!&#8221; intro that I so often used to be greeted with.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since I was back in AOL, I was able to try out Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s old fader apps, which I&#8217;d written about a <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/09\/was-mark-zuckerberg-an-aol-add-on-developer\/\">few<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/27\/steve-case-confirms-zuckerberg-as-former-aol-hacker\/\">times<\/a> previously. It was also cool to play around with some of the progs from the past. It was like a weird time machine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anyway, if you enjoy the video please like\/comment\/share, it seems to really help it in giving it a boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently came across a project called NINA which has setup servers that the original AOL 4.0 software can talk to. After setting up a Windows 98 VM, installing AOL 4.0, and then configuring it to talk to NINA&#8217;s servers, I was able to log into AOL 4.0 for the first time in a very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/10\/going-back-to-aol-4-0\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Going back to AOL 4.0&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aol","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3698\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}