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History of AOL Warez
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#62There was one of these AOL progs that, in addition to all the scripts and AOL tools, had a picture of Jenna Jameson in some menu item. Anyone remember which one that was? Lol, sort of embarrassing what you remember...
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#63I spent so many hours writing AOL 'progs' as they were, I had a decompiled Fate X 2.5 thanks to DoDi's decompiler. The server and MM rooms were always full of pirated stuff, and punting people offline was always a blast. So many good memories of this growing up.
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#64My god, this brings back some formative memories. Memories of AOHell. Memories of HappyHardcore, the self-styled hacker who claimed authorship of it. Memories of hanging out in Warez chat rooms, where everyone showed up in phished accounts to trade 'warez' and conspire to troll various AOL communities. Memories of taking apart System 7 shareware games with ResEdit and, in so doing, learning how they worked.
Those were the days, man.
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#65This did make me nostalgic. More so for the IRC Warez scene. Dalnet, Undernet, Effnet. I spent some time #3dwarez chatting with people sharing cracked copies of software. Many of the people worked in the industry but couldn't afford the 25K licence for personal use. So they traded it around. I was recently cleaning out some boxes of lost hardware. I kind of hoped I would find an old zip disk that had a copy of the 3D…
IRC was such an interesting place - vast with a ton of different niches. I spent a whole summer downloading and burning dreamcast games - to a 14 year old it felt like I'd won the lottery. All of my gaming friends hung out on IRC as well, on top of stuff like cracked passwords for pay sites , software, and just all the weird niche hangouts like the phreaking channels. It was a great part of growing up, sometimes I'm…
IRC is still an interesting place! Even just on Freenode there are a bunch of good channels. It’s not the same as the 90s (before my time online) and 2000s, but I’ve made a few friends & good acquaintances on technical channels, many of whom I’ve even had the pleasure of meeting in person, since many of us live in the SF bay area.
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#66Ancient articles such as this one always bring kiddos out of the woodwork. I'm happy for that because it totally validates all the time I spent on that wretched network.
Fun fact: Da Chronic is a cool dude (shout out #pain) and also wrote this fun thing about phishing:
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#67Super nastolgic here. I learned programming via VB3 Writing apps to mess with AOL. First using "send keys", then switching to WinAPI. Made animated intros with Warezed version of 3d studio max. So many memories and hours spent! Friends made too but they all drifted away. Recently got nastolgic just seeing my buddy list when I logged into my AOL account from the 90s (after AOL shutdown was announced). Pretty much owe…
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#68SuKiYaKi invited me into Allied and I made some of the best friends I ever made in my life at that time. This was the wild west for me
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
IRC was such an interesting place - vast with a ton of different niches. I spent a whole summer downloading and burning dreamcast games - to a 14 year old it felt like I'd won the lottery. All of my gaming friends hung out on IRC as well, on top of stuff like cracked passwords for pay sites , software, and just all the weird niche hangouts like the phreaking channels. It was a great part of growing up, sometimes I'm…
IRC is still an interesting place! Even just on Freenode there are a bunch of good channels. It’s not the same as the 90s (before my time online) and 2000s, but I’ve made a few friends & good acquaintances on technical channels, many of whom I’ve even had the pleasure of meeting in person, since many of us live in the SF bay area.
freenode is definitely the useful network these days
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#70I really miss the word “warez” and appreciate all usages and references.
but you gotta say it wrong like "wah-rez"