AOL Punters

[AgentJean]

I remember the old days of 97 using punters on AOL to fool with my friends and what not.

Now since I have not needed the training wheels of AOL like 8 years(Broadband baby YEAHH). I am wondering. Do such application still exist or has AOL manage to secure themself againts such applications?

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

<h1><h1><h1> hahah

 

[bennylong]

Originally posted by: AgentJean
I remember the old days of 97 using punters on AOL to fool with my friends and what not.

Now since I have not needed the training wheels of AOL like 8 years(Broadband baby YEAHH). I am wondering. Do such application still exist or has AOL manage to secure themself againts such applications?

97? Newbies. You probably thought AOHELL was cool and Jolly Rogers was the bible

 

[AgentJean]

Originally posted by: bennylong

Originally posted by: AgentJean
I remember the old days of 97 using punters on AOL to fool with my friends and what not.

Now since I have not needed the training wheels of AOL like 8 years(Broadband baby YEAHH). I am wondering. Do such application still exist or has AOL manage to secure themself againts such applications?

97? Newbies. You probably thought AOHELL was cool and Jolly Rogers was the bible

When your 13 or 14 year old. Yes.

 

[RichieZ]

ah yes, back in the day when i discovered the warez rooms and had that program to make fake accts.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

I wasn't even on the Internet back then...

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: RichieZ
ah yes, back in the day when i discovered the warez rooms and had that program to make fake accts.

and joining "cerver" chatrooms to get games sent in 1.44mb zip files to your email ... all 50 emails. Oh, and downloading them over 28.8......those were the days.

 

[hjo3]

Originally posted by: AgentJean
Now since I have not needed the training wheels of AOL like 8 years

That you ever needed it at all is pathetic. Especially in '97.

EDIT: Also, stupid kids need to stop referring to things less than 10 years old as "the old days."

 

[Futher]

Firetoolz!

 

[sunase]

Wish my friends had gotten into punting back then....I was running up 200$ bills playing Neverwinter Nights, because there was no unlimited hours plan yet, heh.

 

[tfinch2]

<a href=aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....aaaaaaaaaa>

For a 1 IM punt

 

[bennylong]

I remember having to pay $3.95 a hour, ended up with a $600 bill one month, and then I find the warez room and never paid another dime for AOL again.

 

[AgentJean]

Originally posted by: hjo3

Originally posted by: AgentJean
Now since I have not needed the training wheels of AOL like 8 years

That you ever needed it at all is pathetic. Especially in '97.

EDIT: Also, stupid kids need to stop referring to things less than 10 years old as "the old days."

Them were the days of Fast 33.6kpbs connections speeds and 233MHZ processors.
Now wer have 15mpbs connection speeds and processors in excess of 3.2GHZ

How times change.

 

[imported_vr6]

faderz anyone?

 

[BW86]

they do exist......

 

[beyonddc]

My first Internet service was AOL too.
I was using AOL 2.5 client, and that was 1995.
My modem was 14.4kpbs and it is a Intel 486 system.

 

[Skunkwourk]

I was using a 2400 baud back then...

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Eghck
I was using a 2400 baud back then...

Most of us where. However, most of our 2400 baud modems were capable of much more than 2400 bps. 14.4 kbps = 2400 baud. 28.8 kbps = 2400 baud. Thanks to the wonders of quadrature amplitude modulation. POTS lines only have a bandwidth of 2400 Hz (600 Hz-3000 Hz), so 2400 baud is all you can fit.

 

[Reckoner]

I was an AOL Guide. Those were fun times

 

[cr0ssfire]

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I was an AOL Guide. Those were fun times

Man, I hated you guides back in the day when I still used AOL. You guys used to bust me for punting random people I didn't like out of chat rooms :evil:

ColdFire ftw!

 

[Reckoner]

Originally posted by: cr0ssfire

Originally posted by: PaulNEPats
I was an AOL Guide. Those were fun times

Man, I hated you guides back in the day when I still used AOL. You guys used to bust me for punting random people I didn't like out of chat rooms :evil:

ColdFire ftw!

LOL yeah, it was amazing some of the responses I would get when I entered a room

 

[imported_goku]

I remember when I first got online in '96, then my sister got us banned from aol, my dad managed to get another aol account and all the girls could get online, magically I wasn't able to get online at all, not quite sure why.. I kept bitching at my dad to let me get online and finally, in '98, he finally signed me up with mindspring. Man, after getting online, I really wish I had been able to get online sooner..

 

[Pepsi90919]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Eghck
I was using a 2400 baud back then...

Most of us where. However, most of our 2400 baud modems were capable of much more than 2400 bps. 14.4 kbps = 2400 baud. 28.8 kbps = 2400 baud. Thanks to the wonders of quadrature amplitude modulation. POTS lines only have a bandwidth of 2400 Hz (600 Hz-3000 Hz), so 2400 baud is all you can fit.

people assume baud = bits per second which isn't right

 

[jupiter57]

I remember once, in about '95, I didn't even have a computer yet.
I was working at a Dentist's home and asked his older son to give me a basic rundown on just what all I needed to get online.
He handed me an AOL disk and said "First, you'll need this". I had heard enough about AOL by then that I was certain I wanted no part of it!
When I told him No way would I use AOL, he told me that there was absolutely no way to get online without it!

BTW, my first was a Compaq DeskPro, 133 mhz., 16 MB RAM, 1.2 gig HD. (In '98 I believe) Waited a few weeks for the NEW 33.6 modems to hit the shelves, then bought one.
Signed up with our only local ISP and "went to town"!

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: jupiter57
I remember once, in about '95, I didn't even have a computer yet.
I was working at a Dentist's home and asked his older son to give me a basic rundown on just what all I needed to get online.
He handed me an AOL disk and said "First, you'll need this". I had heard enough about AOL by then that I was certain I wanted no part of it!
When I told him No way would I use AOL, he told me that there was absolutely no way to get online without it!

BTW, my first was a Compaq DeskPro, 133 mhz., 16 MB RAM, 1.2 gig HD. (In '98 I believe) Waited a few weeks for the NEW 33.6 modems to hit the shelves, then bought one.
Signed up with our only local ISP and "went to town"!

Back before 1998 AOL was actually pretty civilized with the best years being 95-96. When they switched to unlimited plans, 1997 became busy signal hell and every fscktard in the world joined and ruined it completely.