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The media controlled by nationalist parties in each camp played a key role in determining the way in which Yugoslavia was broken up and stoked the flames of war and conflict. There were very few independent media spreading a radically different vision and they were all but invisible. The alternative information network AIM was founded in 1992 with the goal of recreating a common information space thanks to the circulation of articles written by anti‑nationalist journalists in all of the republics of former Yugoslavia. These articles were exchanged across hermetically closed borders and published free of charge by independent newspapers. This facilitated the creation of new media. The fact that the journalists were paid for their articles helped to ensure that they continued to exercise their profession. AIM achieved this objective by establishing editorial boards in each republic that were linked together by a mail box system that made it possible to electronically exchange articles well before the arrival of internet.