Actually...AOL never really attempted to stop anyone from not using the AIM client. If I remember correctly, the last _major_ change is when they started using the OSCAR protocol which confused lots of people...but that wasn't the point of it, OSCAR was just better.  Maybe I'm just confused. A few years ago, I made an AIM client...all I really remember is that it used OSCAR and TIC/TOC. They have the greatest names for protocols. Also, AOL, unlike Miribilas (or whatever makes ICQ now), never shut down people who hosted information about their protocols. Man, ICQ was pretty confusing...UDP is lame 
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