[Eclyps]

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+ years later.

[vogt]

Yep, same. My mother's best friend worked for MS at the time and brought me home VB4 in a giant box. Little did they know what I was up to (nothing too south of innocuous, I was mostly trying to spam render middle fingers in ASCII in AOL chatrooms)

[platz]

I got my family account banned for chat room ascii scripts

[mrpound]

Me too, haha

[allcentury]

those were the best!

[allcentury]

Same! I used to spend hours picking the right theme song to bundle on the opening splash page to ship with my software that never worked.

I left tech in college and only got back into in my late 20's, happy to be back but with a bit more maturity.

[dec0dedab0de]

Me too, but for prodigy..

I did help a friend with his AOL app when they added a spce to the title and it broke sendkeys

[cdiamand]

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

[Domenic_S]

AOHell!