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Post by noahdesu »

deepakhj wrote: post #113
noahdesu wrote: post #82

This is so interesting. Maybe once every couple years, I'll have a vivid memory of the IRC days back in mid to late 90s. I always try to find some record of it. The name of the group I associated with, and the nicks. They are right on the tip of my tongue, but I never can quite remember. I'd know them if I saw them written out, which is why I occasionally search. It'd be a trip to stumble upon all that old stuff some…

A lot of the scene reports are still archived online. Here’s an example: https://defacto2.net/file/detail/a74c1

Wow. I found myself! It's all there. Thanks so much :)

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Post by dsnuh »

dplgk wrote: post #53

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…

Super nostaglic here as well. My first experience with programming was writing a mass mailer in WhaleScript. Taking the free trial CDs from the magazine racks and then using a cardgen to defeat Mod10 verification. $70 phone bills that my parents asked about. Good times.

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Post by newlyretired »

pandaman wrote: post #58
paulie_a wrote: post #30

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…

Efnet (Eris-free Network). I am not correcting because I am an asshole but because I think there is a notable difference in how people used to name things in 90s vs now.

For the curious, Eris is the ancient Greek god of strife and discord. Is this an alternate spelling of Ares?

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Post by amatecha »

nemo44x wrote: post #108
amatecha wrote: post #61

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...

Hotline was pretty good. I ran a banner server there for a bit to make some cash since I was pretty broke in college at the time. 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…

Carracho was alright, but I found KDX quickly took its place -- still quite a few servers running too!

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Post by pandaman »

newlyretired wrote: post #124
pandaman wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Efnet (Eris-free Network). I am not correcting because I am an asshole but because I think there is a notable difference in how people used to name things in 90s vs now.

For the curious, Eris is the ancient Greek god of strife and discord. Is this an alternate spelling of Ares?

Ares is a deity of war and a male. Eris is a deity of discord and is one of the Ares' two female companions.

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Post by grkvlt »

inuhj wrote: post #85
dplgk wrote: post #53

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…

Making punters in VB3 got me started. I wonder if there is an equivalent avenue for kids to be subversive these days? Every generation says it but the frontiers are gone.

Really there's nothing to be proud of about writing programs to kick people off a system - that's called being an asshole - or distributing warez, that's called stealing. I'd hope people learning about technology today can do it without needing to do those 'subversive' things...

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Post by Domenic_S »

cdiamand wrote: post #87
Eclyps wrote: post #10

This 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+ ye…

Haha! Punting. Man that brings me back. I think there was a program called moo toolz?

AOHell!

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Post by nemo44x »

amatecha wrote: post #125
nemo44x wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hotline was pretty good. I ran a banner server there for a bit to make some cash since I was pretty broke in college at the time. 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…

Carracho was alright, but I found KDX quickly took its place -- still quite a few servers running too!

Wasn’t a huge fan of KDX, probably because of the community I was engaged with on Carracho at the time. But good to hear it is still running. Might download the client and have a look!

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Post by dustinls »

jlgaddis wrote: post #78

Not AOL but /ctcp username ping +++ATH0 gave me many hours of enjoyment on IRC. (Forgive me if I've gotten the syntax wrong, it's been a long time.)

worked in channels too, everyone with a linksys router would get disconnected. also it was just +ATH0
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