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Re:What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers by treesknees on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:54PM (#31005215)
Wow, very cool. I see at least 3 programs I wrote or helped with in the AIM section. I'll have to dig out my source code to see if any others are present. Definitely going to spin up a VM and see them run again. Thanks for this.
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Re:What hacking AOL taught a generation of programmers by RexM on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @01:09PM (#31005442)
No problem, have fun.

You're going to run into issues with ocx files. You can search around for them online, but it's a real hassle downloading them to older versions of Windows because SSL support has moved on from what Windows 95/98/ME/2000 can handle.

I've found I can either hit the download without https from the Windows box, or copy them to an S3 bucket and use an http URL to download it out of the bucket.

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