This article is from 2007. Might be good to add that to the title.
History of AOL Warez
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#32I owe the first ever program I wrote to the AOL Warez Scene. Still remember the day I stood in the software section of Barnes and Nobles to buy 'Visual Basic Professional 3.0 Programming'. I was trying to add startup music to the source code of another 'prog' I had downloaded and was able to lift an example in the VB 3.0 book to get it to work.
I remember learning how to add intro music to my VB project and made my entire family watch. It used Metallica's 'Enter Sandman' - I cringe and laugh at that memory. I think another prog had that as it's intro music so I was just trying to copy
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#33I remember trying to write punters in VB, phishing bots, etc. I thought progs were the funniest things ever and I thought I was so clever because I never had a subscription to AOL, I would just use another '30 days free AOL' CD that I collected every time I went to the mall with my parents. I am happy I never did anything too stupid but from a CS perspective I learned a lot very quickly.
Used to sign up for AOL using a credit card generator: Probably one of the ones here: http://cd.textfiles.com/hackersencyc/PROGRAMS/FILES.HTM
Oh my - of course, how could I forget...
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#34I remember trying to write punters in VB, phishing bots, etc. I thought progs were the funniest things ever and I thought I was so clever because I never had a subscription to AOL, I would just use another '30 days free AOL' CD that I collected every time I went to the mall with my parents. I am happy I never did anything too stupid but from a CS perspective I learned a lot very quickly.
You could call up AOL's customer service line and tell them you were a teacher and they'd mail you a box of 100 CD-ROMs.
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#35People don’t even know.
Macfilez, zelifcam, spending hours busting into rooms and convincing mass mail bots to send you email and downloading 3D studio max, maya, photoshop (100s of mb) in 1.4 mb mass mail chunks, building programs in OneClick on your Mac to write l33t text and bust into rooms, the AOL keyword “green”... those were the glory days.
It made no sense, it was amazing.
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#36Definitely brings back memories - although I was never into the AOL or IRC scene. I was mostly into the BBS world before that, and remember groups like Razor 1911 & THG.
Would love it if someone would put together a doc like this about the BBS ANSI art scene - groups like iCE, ACiD, RELiC, etc. That was some amazing stuff, and a great community.
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#37I remember trying to write punters in VB, phishing bots, etc. I thought progs were the funniest things ever and I thought I was so clever because I never had a subscription to AOL, I would just use another '30 days free AOL' CD that I collected every time I went to the mall with my parents. I am happy I never did anything too stupid but from a CS perspective I learned a lot very quickly.
> … I never had a subscription to AOL, I would just use another '30 days free AOL' CD… There was a modified version of the client app call AOL4Free that bypassed billing on the Mac. Monthly charge for the account, but unlimited use. I believe I read that it was generated built a college student.
We used to trade overhead accounts.
Overhead accounts were subaccounts of AOL employees.
There were different levels of administrative ability with different types of OH accounts.
There was also an employee version of AOL that had special menus to perform administrative functions.
For a while I had a L3 OH which let me create sub accounts under anyone's account without their knowledge, log any screen name off with the click of a button, boot people from chat rooms and disable accounts.
Unfortunately I got cocky (I was 15 so what'd you expect) and booted a catcwatch account, which of course immediately disabled my OH account.
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#38I owe the first ever program I wrote to the AOL Warez Scene. Still remember the day I stood in the software section of Barnes and Nobles to buy 'Visual Basic Professional 3.0 Programming'. I was trying to add startup music to the source code of another 'prog' I had downloaded and was able to lift an example in the VB 3.0 book to get it to work.
i remember some AOL software I used at the time that had a NiN intro
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
> … I never had a subscription to AOL, I would just use another '30 days free AOL' CD… There was a modified version of the client app call AOL4Free that bypassed billing on the Mac. Monthly charge for the account, but unlimited use. I believe I read that it was generated built a college student.
We used to trade overhead accounts. Overhead accounts were subaccounts of AOL employees. There were different levels of administrative ability with different types of OH accounts. There was also an employee version of AOL that had special menus to perform administrative functions. For a while I had a L3 OH which let me create sub accounts under anyone's account without their knowledge, log any screen name off with th…
Really interesting. What's a "catcwatch" account?
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#40orange-tubber