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Thanks for sharing this, just in awe at some of the screenshots and remembering high school all over again. How could I forget about Fate and the awesome artwork they always had! http://justinakapaste.com/fate-x-3-0/
An interesting blog post about those graphics and the cipher they used and how the developer was revealed. http://patorjk.com/blog/2012/05/03/cracking-magus-fate-zero-...
Had 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.
You could add '^' to the modem string to silence the modem sound.
People 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.
we most likely know each other.. 2.7 for life.
This 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…
fun anecdote: some guy offered me an access to its ftp, full of tutorials. I didn't know how to use ftp, so he told me to install vnc so he could set it up for me. I didn't know VNC either but the second my mouse moved without my will my hand grabbed the modem cable.
i was unpuntable on aol (still am!) and will never give away my secret! ;)
I remember when Napster came around; that was the beginning of the end of “anything goes” on a university residential network.
Super 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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Mac users had the privilege of a less-popular platform, Hotline -- see an article on it here https://www.macworld.com/article/2031816/hotline-revisited.h...
A better version of Hotline was Carracho in my opinion. More open communities and a better experience overall. Super nostalgic for those days right now. It was about a lot more than the files, at least after a new users initial frenzy. Great discussion groups, etc.
Any Carracho users here from back then?
* CC generators actually worked to create an account that would last a good amount of time
* In the early days (~ AOL v2.5) they had a CGI form you could fill out and have a disc sent to your home. So of course we scripted it and had hundreds of free formattable 3.5"'s. A bit down the road and MS had a similar thing for Windows '95 replacement discs -- they'd send you the entire set if one was bad, which was a lot of good discs :)
* AOL at one point allowed ordering physical products (early digital cameras and the like) via your account credit. Mix in a phished account and you can see how that goes.
* I can't remember the names right now, but there were services in which you could pick up a CD and get free dial-up email access. The gig is they would show you ads. Patch the EXE and viola, you essentially just have a PPP account to the web.
Can someone with knowledge of all of these early programs explained how they worked? I remember getting booted from rooms (and offline) all of the time during this period. It seemed like the Wild West, where all of these outlaws were above the law. It was glorious even though I was constantly in fear of being “punted”. Now as a technical adult I’m very curious how they could do it. Did they send a certain “magic” byt…
Some IM punters exploited issues with the primitive HTML renderering capabilities in AOL, when receiving certain HTML AOL would either take too many cycles render it, detracting from its network code cycles causing a disconnect from he server (booted), or in some cases crash. Some IMing also exploited bandwidth disparity, whereby they would send more than you could consume forcing a disconnect.
I believe there was even a more effective one that was something like .