Who here was an AOL Guide back in the day?

[aphex]

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

http://www.hamienet.com/midi10...et-Ready-For-This.html

I posted it on AOL around 95-96 maybe?

 

[TheVrolok]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
That and win nuke attacks.

{S:\welcome would play the welcome sound. Any wav file put in the AOL root folder could be played and this was popular too and never really frowned upon unless it was used maliciously like above. I believe AOL 5.0 finally fixed the con issue.

Those were the days. Lawlz, AOL proggies. So many amusing memories.

 

[QueBert]

My neighbor Pete had huge issues with the guides there, they would permaban him, and he would just sign right back up and add a digit to the end of his screen name. I remember him on there as BoredPete, the last time I caught up with him he was BoredPete18 I believe, 18 accounts and still going strong hehehe.

 

[skace]

I used AOL to play Quake in 96 and racked up the hugest bill my dad had ever seen and that was the last I ever had to deal with AOL.

 

[alkemyst]

i was busy sexing on love@aol and the south florida chat.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: BillGates
FateX > You

Ahhh...memories....

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: Saulbadguy
Like pavlov's dog, I begin salivation when I hear the :music:file's done:music:

:Q

Ok, so I'm not the only one who thinks of pron when I hear that sound. Good.

 

[evident]

mass mails ftw!

 

[minendo]

Not a guide, but I did host and serve in all of the AOL Chat Room MP3s.

 

[imported_NtWatchman]

I still hang out in Mac or PC to this day actually... I was around long before they announced unlimited billing.... used to be something of a vigilante hehe... targeting all the Snerts with progiez and bombers, scrollers and disrupters and those searching for such programs (ohhh dont say "Warez"!!) hehe... the bulk of the TOS reports coming out of that chat room in the 90s were from me LOL - many tried to get me taken down too - by copy and pasting faked TOS reports - (before AOL used the text capture report system they use today) - no one ever got me

I remember the Host Wars hehe... Most Guides and Hosts didnt like me either... *cough*Host CWZ*cough* hehehe

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: l0cke
lots of old people here

Including myself, but reading this thread I'm realizing I haven't wasted nearly as much of my life online as many others.

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Rubycon
Those were the days. Kiddies would come in the chat rooms with programs like Fate Ultra that had scrollers, room busters (they would run them to fill the room full of "troll has entered the room" - "troll has left the room" messages so nobody else could type anything. They'd fill the rooms with ASCI art, pick on others by using the echo feature so whenever the victim typed something their SN would echo the same thing simultaneously. The software improved so after three lines in succession the scroller was logged off and the authors of Fate updated with a delayed send, etc.

I remember frequenting the Mac or PC room where there would always be arguments. I believe the AOL software I originally had was on a 5.25 floppy. Chatrooms went from A to Z then. :Q

When windows 9x was vulnerable to the CON resource attack trolls would type in {S:\con\con and people with vulnerable systems would drop like flies because it would cause a blue screen of death immediately. That was a big deal back in the modem days. That and win nuke attacks.

{S:\welcome would play the welcome sound. Any wav file put in the AOL root folder could be played and this was popular too and never really frowned upon unless it was used maliciously like above. I believe AOL 5.0 finally fixed the con issue.

Ahaha I remember those distorters and ̂ to crash AIM 3.0 or something HAHAHAHA.

 

[slay2k]

Oh the memories. Getting banned over and over and over again. WAAS Hydrotica. Email bombing friends and random people.

Apologies for the thread resurrect, but if anyone has miraculously retained a copy of waas (what a dumb fucking name), hit me up!

I'd love to check out my mad c0ding sk33lz and see if anything's changed in the last 15 years..

 

[techs]

This is f*cking hilarious:
http://home.comcast.net/~techsme/whiner.exe

 

[RoloMather]

Anyone even use AOL anymore?

 

[Synomenon]

1994. AOL 1.5 for Windows 3.1 on my old AST PC w/ 33MHz Pentium and 28.8k modem.

I'm 26 now and that was my first PC.

I wasn't a guide, but I remember a couple of them from some chat rooms.

 

[keird]

I had despised AOL after they baited everyone for $20/month and didn't even have anywhere near the capacity to meet their dial-up requirements. Thus I avoided AOL and their portals like the plague.

In 1995 I bought a $2,000 Dell so that I could play this game called TIE Fighter. I also played X-Com quite a bit, too.

 

[Possessed Freak]

Never had and never witnessed AOL. My first glimpse of the Internet outside of school was through a multi-node BBS with a 14.4 uplink to the internet. 4 users sharing the 14.4... yeah I was not impressed.

 

[shortylickens]

My mom and dad used AOL but I never got into it.
I prefer Gopher.

 

[darkxshade]

AOL was a blast when there was chaos, then it got dull. I still remember there was the 4011 prefix that you could always use to make a fake account that would work 3 days... that lasted like years while others prefixes got banned fairly quickly. Still wonder to this day how AOL could be so easy to make a fake account with.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

hehe, I was a proggie whore...got me banned permalike when I e-mail bombed steve case...

hahahahah omg thats great! I remember IM bombing the crap out of people with Pepsi...lol

Not to get too off track but who here remembers Prodigy? That software is why I named myself pr0d1gy...lol

 

[whylaff]

=qpermagag thisthread 30

 

[iGas]

There were better alternatives than AOL such as local Free Net service, universities/colleges, and libraries.

IMHO, AOL is in the same league as Syncronys SoftRAM.

 

[guyver01]

I was an AOL guide back in the day. One of the final 'tests' was to spam a test chatroom and see how quickly the new guide could "gag" you. I had a macro written that spammed the chat buffer ... i crashed our chatroom.

oh.. for those that always wondered... the Guide chatroom was Jake LaMotta.

 

[MaggyF]

LOL Years late...I just came across this thread. I was an AOL Guide...Guide TM. I was actually the Guide operations manager from 1994-96, working directly under the Guide Manager, the "QOTFU" Rita. Those were great times, and I hated those little room-bringing-down trolls. Thanks for the memories!