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AOL Proggies

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slugg

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Remember these? The interwebs was funny, back then. My, have we come a long way. The modern day "AOL proggie" is something like AdBlock Plus, in my opinion.

What say you?
 
slugg said:
Remember these? The interwebs was funny, back then. My, have we come a long way. The modern day "AOL proggie" is something like AdBlock Plus, in my opinion.

What say you?
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I remember them. Sometimes giving you special powers...like kicking other members from AOL chat rooms.
 
Of course.. Most of the names slip my mind but I remember FireToolz 3.0, AOHell, Pepsi. So many more. I remember most had musical intros when you would load them. Punting, phishing, IM bombs.

Those were crazy times of aol. I started with AOL 2.5 and remember the days of getting in the "warez" chat rooms to subscribe to the "mass mails". Those usually consisted of games being broken into 100 parts to your email and were stripped down versions to begin with (they would rip out movies/music in the game to save space).

I remember stumbling upon a website which had a lot of these "proggies" archived.. Wonder if that is still around.
 
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Meeting girls for late night sneaking outs through AOL was a great past time in the late 90's...

AOHell is my favorite nerdy memory.

Hilariously, my current employer's biggest customer is AOL!!!!!!!!!! 😀
 
Fate X
wise and beautiful woman Punt
AOHELL
AOICE
AOPUSSY
chen punter

I started on aol 2.5 and got into proggies and messing around with visual basic when I was younger. I didn't really become a programmer until much later, though. I remember when AOL added the ability to use HTML in their instant messages and you could exploit it by using certain tags. Basically it would create crazy patterns of color on the users screen via instant message until either AOL or their PC locked up and they were booted offline.

Another amusing attack on AOL was when you would devise a message that someone supposedly sent and you could report them using the fake message as evidence. Over time AOL wisened up and they tried to inject certain characters that they did not display into their instant messages so that when you copied and pasted someones message they would see the expected characters and verify that it was legitimate. Of course that was countered by programs that would inject the characters for you and you could once again use fraudulent messages to have people kicked off AOL.
 
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gonvik said:
Of course.. Most of the names slip my mind but I remember FireToolz 3.0, AOHell, Pepsi. So many more. I remember most had musical intros when you would load them. Punting, phishing, IM bombs.

Those were crazy times of aol. I started with AOL 2.5 and remember the days of getting in the "warez" chat rooms to subscribe to the "mass mails". Those usually consisted of games being broken into 100 parts to your email and were stripped down versions to begin with (they would rip out movies/music in the game to save space).

I remember stumbling upon a website which had a lot of these "proggies" archived.. Wonder if that is still around.
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yeah. it was difficult explaining to my dad why our account got banned for punting someone. LOL
 
I also remember scrollers where you could send long text messages or giant ASCII art pictures through the chat input box in the chat rooms with a scroller. AOL cracked down on this and started booting people when they would scroll too many messages within a certain period of time. If you had multiple AOL accounts and you logged on with multiple versions of AOL you could use them in alternating fashion to send a message or picture one line at a time so that you could still scroll in the chat. You could basically control a chat room and make all the other people leave by dominating the chat.

I remember going to war with other chat rooms a few times where you would invade the other person's chat with scrollers and use punters to boot each other offline. You would also use the tossing programs to try to get each others accounts banned.
 
LumbergTech said:
I also remember scrollers where you could send long text messages or giant ASCII art pictures through the chat input box in the chat rooms with a scroller. AOL cracked down on this and started booting people when they would scroll too many messages within a certain period of time. If you had multiple AOL accounts and you logged on with multiple versions of AOL you could use them in alternating fashion to send a message or picture one line at a time so that you could still scroll in the chat. You could basically control a chat room and make all the other people leave by dominating the chat.

I remember going to war with other chat rooms a few times where you would invade the other person's chat with scrollers and use punters to boot each other offline. You would also use the tossing programs to try to get each others accounts banned.
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OMG, I remember all of this! Hahahaha
 
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