History of AOL Warez
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History of AOL Warez
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#2Here is a short history on the early hacking groups (#pain)-
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#3Related: I have fond memories of middle school me mercilessly booting people out of AOL chat rooms with SubZero and other "progs."
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#4Related: I have fond memories of middle school me mercilessly booting people out of AOL chat rooms with SubZero and other "progs."
oh man. that brings back some fun memories of the red dragon inn.
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#5Mods - perhaps a (2004) would be relevant to append to this title. At the time of writing of that post, the AOL warez scene was winding down and remembrances might be much fresher than the same retrospective written in 2017.
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#6If you find this stuff interesting, as I do, I would check out http://www.welcometothescene.com/ (Dead link). It was a web-series about the scene that was pretty much completely a screen recording of the "main character" which I don't think we ever see. The entire thing is watching chat logs and this person rip/upload movies and the like. I'm sure you can find a torrent kicking around out there of it (if you can't email me). Here is the wiki page on it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scene_(miniseries)
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#8Related: I have fond memories of middle school me mercilessly booting people out of AOL chat rooms with SubZero and other "progs."
These “progs” are main reason I learned Visual Basic and then C/C++
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#9Had my (parents’) AOL account terminated when I was 11 years old (1999) for pirating Visual Basic 4 from an AOL mail server chat . Listened to that sweet dial up connection sound before being greeted with an account termination message. Had no idea what “piracy” even meant.
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#10This brings back so many memories... this is where I really started my "programming" with Visual Basic 4, hunting the web for .bas files that I could load into my own VB project to create 1337 rainbow text in my IMs, punting users, trying to work around the rate limiting that they added to chatrooms... it's incredible that the AOL warez scene is essential the catalyst for my now successful career in technology 20+ years later.