This project started as an exercise to get familiar with AI coding agents — and to give me a few laughs while reliving a nostalgic past that modern users can't even fathom. As time went by and I dug deeper into my archives (I'm a digital packrat — every time I got a new machine I migrated all my data forward, and eventually consolidated everything onto a NAS. It's bad. I have AIM logs going back to when I first started using DeadAIM and later GAIM/Pidgin), I realized I'm sitting on lost media from some very niche communities. Those files will live here in the Downloads folder, with backups at my archive.org account. The raw data lives in this folder on the desktop, and as time permits I'll personally curate and write up the histories of communities I lurked in — I rarely ever registered on these sites.