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   Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 00:44:45 JST Mac84 ?

   Random SyQuest disk find of the day:
   AOL for Macintosh source code from 1993!?
   Whaaatttt?! 😳

   Look at those original icons with the Apple logo in them!

   #ArchiveEverything

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     dan 💾 (billgoats@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 00:50:30 JST dan 💾

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     @mac84tv That’s wild!

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     Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 00:51:29 JST Mac84 ?

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     Hey look, release notes! 📖

     Aladdin v1.03d - March 1, 1993

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     Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 01:09:46 JST Mac84 ?

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     Welcome to Aladdin!✨

     (I assume this is the code name of AOL for Macintosh)

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     Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 08:31:55 JST Mac84 ?

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     • mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

     @atax1a sweet! I’ll be putting it up somewhere soon 👍

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     mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) (atax1a@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 08:31:56 JST mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)

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     @mac84tv hey! we're part of an AOL re-creation effort and would be interested in seeing this.

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     Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 20:51:21 JST Mac84 ?

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     • Phil M0OFX

     @philpem it’s what I do, it’ll be there soon!

     https://archive.org/details/@mac84tv

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     Phil M0OFX (philpem@digipres.club)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 20:51:22 JST Phil M0OFX

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     @mac84tv #ArchiveEverything indeed! What a find. Hopefully this will land on Archive.org.

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     Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:26:26 JST Mac84 ?

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     Upon further inspection, this appears to be an in-development build of AOL 2.0 or 2.0.1. There are folders referencing AOL 2.0.1 here, although they are blank. The dates line up much more closely than version 1.0.

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     Mac84 ? (mac84tv@bitbang.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:26:52 JST Mac84 ?

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     • kby

     @6b6279 Aladdin Systems, Inc. created StuffIt Expander / DropStuff. However, the use of Aladdin here as a code name seems unrelated, even though an early version of StuffIt was often bundled with AOL to help decompress downloads, etc.

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     kby (6b6279@freiburg.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Mar-2026 22:26:54 JST kby

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     @mac84tv That’s a bit confusing. Isn’t the SIT extractor on Windows also called Aladdin?