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Today I opened up the Windows Resource Monitor to see why my elderly neighbor's AOL Desktop Gold app was loading so slowly. The problem turned out to be network
by 1MachineElf 4y ago
Today I opened up the Windows Resource Monitor to see why my elderly neighbor's AOL Desktop Gold app was loading so slowly. The problem turned out to be network related, but I was intrigued to see in it's disk activity many reads and writes to a .sqlite file.
I wonder how long AOL's desktop app has been using SQLite - since the early 2000s maybe? If anyone has one of those original AOL disks lying around, it may be interesting to see if the installer unpacks a SQLite DB of some kind.
- chasil 4y agoAOL was one of the first large corporate users of SQLite. "... the next tech giant to reach out was America Online... They needed a database on that [AOL] CD, and they had some ad hoc thing and they wanted to use SQLite on that. They had limited space, and so, “Hey, we need to put this on the CD.”" https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/ https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
- ryanschneider 4y agoWe used SQLite to store the time series data used to show network activity in McAfee.com Personal Firewall circa 2002 or so. Anyways,acording to the Wikipedia page for SQLite AOL funded the development of at least some of SQLite 3 in 2004. I remember that we didn’t upgrade right away, or if we ever did for that matter.