AOL Keywords circa 1996

Have you ever wanted to examine all AOL keywords for its 5,122 public chatrooms circa 1996? Probably not, but I did as part of historical research. Since I had to uncompress an ancient sit file, convert the ancient Hypercard deck to XML, and then format it into markdown/HTML, I might as well share the result.

https://reagle.org/joseph/2024/watson-1996-aol-keywords.html

BTW: This book is not available, for sale or otherwise. Fortunately, the Internet Archive’s Open Library sometimes has access to such resources. I was unlucky that the book version of this resource is no longer available. I was fortunate the original author also created a HyperCard version of the list that the Archive also provides within an emulator.

I ♥️ Internet Archive.

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