[mkr-hn]

There was a big underground movement using Visual Basic and variations on dos32.bas to do interesting things on top of AOL's client.

[jasonwatkinspdx]

That sounds fascinating. Is there a good write up for someone totally unfamiliar with that world and that doesn't want to get into the weeds, but is interested in what the community was like?

[mkr-hn]

Here you go: http://articles.marco.org/44

There are some references in this thread if you want to go deeper: http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/was-anybody-else-part-of-t...

This was one of the more popular programmers: http://patorjk.com/blog/programming/