Other side of the equation. Trillian was an unofficial client, this seems to be a group running a series of unofficial servers that can be used with the origin

Other side of the equation. Trillian was an unofficial client, this seems to be a group running a series of unofficial servers that can be used with the original clients, and presumably also contemporary unofficial clients. I'm also aware of the P3OL project which supports AOL 2.x and 3.x clients.