Motherboard:

Sadly, after 20 years, AOL shut down the service on December 15 of last year. Now, a small team of developers has resurrected it with a private server. The new chat service is called AIM Phoenix, and it works by running the messages through a private Dynamic DNS run by Wildman Productions, a non-profit group of hobbyist programers. This isn’t a new AIM client, it literally uses the old software running on a new server, so it looks and feels exactly like AIM.

Tremendous. I love when these sort of things happen online.

Sadly, couldn’t happen for my dear, departed Google Reeder (it’s okay, as I have FeedBin now), but I love when the community comes together.