old AOL people.....

[0rion]

That "how did you get your nick" thread got me to thinking about how long I've been on the web and how far the web has come in general. I, like just about everyone out there, got started back in the AOL days. I think AOL2.0 was the first version I had. I still have some of those install disks and cd's around here somewhere I think.
I used to have a blast "punting" people. Those were some fun times. I wrote a couple of punters too that I still have on disk here. You could also mail punt people and all kinds of stuff. Wh0rd was my favorite of all time. HaVok, south park toolz,firetoolz, and a bunch more. Phishers, tosers,scrollers, and mass mailers. I eventually ended up doing alot of mass mailing in some of the private rooms and joined an mIRC group called Volition although I wasn't in it a real long time. It got old and I got tired of having to figure out new ways to get AOL accounts because I was banned many many times. I still have some of that stuff on zip disks if anyone remembers those. Back then a big hard drive was 5 or 6 gigs and you could buy a zip drive and have 100 meg disks. I have 10 of those along with the drive in a box here somewhere. The disks were $10 a pop so it was basically $100 for 1 gig of storage. They also sucked because they were just a big ass floppy for the most part and slow. Those were the days before cable internet too so everything was done on a 56k dial up. I'd upload and download 24/7.
I figure most of you guys were too young to remember this stuff but is there anyone that was an AOL junky back then?

[third_shift|studios]

AOL 3 was this shiz. That's when it actually had a browser and the IM/community thing got huge. I used to use the "people finder" to eStalk babes when i was in HS. a/s/l? yeah...i started that

I remember the install discs that had the big goofy text on it like "100 HOURS FREE!!!!!" and i was like "whoa! i gotta monitor how much time i use" then i realized it was a "first month free" thing. My dad had like 10 CC's at the time, so at the end of each month, i'd cancel the account so we wouldn't get charged then start it up again on a new CC.

[0rion]

AOL 3 was this shiz. That's when it actually had a browser and the IM/community thing got huge. I used to use the "people finder" to eStalk babes when i was in HS. a/s/l? yeah...i started that

I remember the install discs that had the big goofy text on it like "100 HOURS FREE!!!!!" and i was like "whoa! i gotta monitor how much time i use" then i realized it was a "first month free" thing. My dad had like 10 CC's at the time, so at the end of each month, i'd cancel the account so we wouldn't get charged then start it up again on a new CC.

who knows...at some point I may have had your password.

[third_shift|studios]

hampsterdance.com
devildance.com
jesusdance.com

'member those? man, we use to piss off the computer teachers soooo much with that shit.

[Z28Thunder]

That "how did you get your nick" thread got me to thinking about how long I've been on the web and how far the web has come in general. I, like just about everyone out there, got started back in the AOL days. I think AOL2.0 was the first version I had. I still have some of those install disks and cd's around here somewhere I think.
I used to have a blast "punting" people. Those were some fun times. I wrote a couple of punters too that I still have on disk here. You could also mail punt people and all kinds of stuff. Wh0rd was my favorite of all time. HaVok, south park toolz,firetoolz, and a bunch more. Phishers, tosers,scrollers, and mass mailers. I eventually ended up doing alot of mass mailing in some of the private rooms and joined an mIRC group called Volition although I wasn't in it a real long time. It got old and I got tired of having to figure out new ways to get AOL accounts because I was banned many many times. I still have some of that stuff on zip disks if anyone remembers those. Back then a big hard drive was 5 or 6 gigs and you could buy a zip drive and have 100 meg disks. I have 10 of those along with the drive in a box here somewhere. The disks were $10 a pop so it was basically $100 for 1 gig of storage. They also sucked because they were just a big ass floppy for the most part and slow. Those were the days before cable internet too so everything was done on a 56k dial up. I'd upload and download 24/7.
I figure most of you guys were too young to remember this stuff but is there anyone that was an AOL junky back then?

I guess it is old age for you. A zip drive was 100 MB not a gig. 1 zip disk was about 10 dollars. A Jaz Drive was 1 gig and a disk was about 100 dollars. If your going to go back in the day.. Remeber the info.. And hten hat famous click of death......

[0rion]

I guess it is old age for you. A zip drive was 100 MB not a gig. 1 zip disk was about 10 dollars. A Jaz Drive was 1 gig and a disk was about 100 dollars. If your going to go back in the day.. Remeber the info.. And hten hat famous click of death......

maybe it's old age for you. Read it again.... I wrote pretty much the same thing you did.

[ArcticZ06]

win nuke, Back Orifice, flooding port 169 (I think 169, its been too long???), SubSeven.... those were the days.

never had an aol account though.

[kickflippin1]

I dont know if anyone remembers it, but i started out using Prodigy internet. My grandpa was like, one of the first people to have that shit, and that's what i started with. I'm only 23, and that came out when i was like, 10 or something, so i've had internet access for a good portion of my life.

Man, i remember AOL. When i was in Jr. High, we used to d/l all the south park sounds and just sit there and listen to them all day on my buddies computer. Hampster dance....man, that is some old school shit. Yeah, being punted was a bitch. Those were the good ol' days.

[0rion]

the 1 IM punts were the killers. By the time someone figured out what was going on they were gone. <H1><H1><H1><H2><H2> ect. ect. or something like that anyhow. You could go in with a couple of people and start scrolling rooms and just shut the room down.

[JoshieDoom]

I didnt have internet at the house till like 01 or 02? We had a local dialup service then. My dad was the service manager and they had AOL and mindspring at the stealership. We would spent every night online for hours downloading music and porn and shit. Didnt really play much on AOL. I would dialup and then go to IE.

[LS1FirehawkWS6]

My first was AOL 4.0, I had punters by Fire&Ice and HackToolz. and that god-forsaken bubble-bobble noise everytime somebody posted. FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU!

[FORD RECOVERY EXPERT]

a/s/l ......

Those were the days...

[AKIRA]

That "how did you get your nick" thread got me to thinking about how long I've been on the web and how far the web has come in general. I, like just about everyone out there, got started back in the AOL days. I think AOL2.0 was the first version I had. I still have some of those install disks and cd's around here somewhere I think.
I used to have a blast "punting" people. Those were some fun times. I wrote a couple of punters too that I still have on disk here. You could also mail punt people and all kinds of stuff. Wh0rd was my favorite of all time. HaVok, south park toolz,firetoolz, and a bunch more. Phishers, tosers,scrollers, and mass mailers. I eventually ended up doing alot of mass mailing in some of the private rooms and joined an mIRC group called Volition although I wasn't in it a real long time. It got old and I got tired of having to figure out new ways to get AOL accounts because I was banned many many times. I still have some of that stuff on zip disks if anyone remembers those. Back then a big hard drive was 5 or 6 gigs and you could buy a zip drive and have 100 meg disks. I have 10 of those along with the drive in a box here somewhere. The disks were $10 a pop so it was basically $100 for 1 gig of storage. They also sucked because they were just a big ass floppy for the most part and slow. Those were the days before cable internet too so everything was done on a 56k dial up. I'd upload and download 24/7.
I figure most of you guys were too young to remember this stuff but is there anyone that was an AOL junky back then?

If you remember that far back then you remember....

AOHell

[0rion]

If you remember that far back then you remember....

AOHell

yep. I remember all that stuff. Pentoolz, caldron mass mailer, elnino,fate, and a bunch of others. I just found a disk with a couple on it. See if these look familiar.

[AKIRA]

I had all versions of aohell. Aokilla, and I loved Lucifer. Remember that? Fucking proggie would make viruses! I made a fake fag account, went into a m4m room and declared that I had a gay game. I mass mailed it and the next few days, aol was free of m4m rooms. However, they returned, I got some hate mail, then my account was deleted.

I then made another account. Ugh, it was so fun back in those days.

[0rion]

yep...aol haxors

[grouch0jr]

i used aol to start, then when i found out about AIM, i started using net zero, but hacked it to get rid of the ad window. i remember when my friend got a 56k modem when they first came out, and he though he was king of the universe, downloading entire mp3s in 15 minutes haha.

[grunt]

The IBM XT, PC had a 360kb 5 1/4" floppy drive, 2/4 Mhz cpu and 640kb memory.

It ran DOS op system, programs and stored files all on a 360kb floppy drive.

We had bulletin boards before the internet. Personal PC's set up with dial up connections with 110/300 baud modems. You could dial up and post text messages.

The early internet connected to college libraries and did searches. No commercial ads.

I used dial up then switched to Compuserve using Netscape as a browser who was then bought out by AOL.

[grunt]

The IBM XT, PC had a 360kb 5 1/4" floppy drive, 2/4 Mhz cpu and 640kb memory.

It ran DOS op system, programs and stored files all on a 360kb floppy drive.

We had bulletin boards before the internet. Personal PC's set up with dial up connections with 110/300 baud modems. You could dial up and post text messages.

The early internet connected to college libraries and did searches. No commercial ads.

I used dial up then switched to Compuserve using Netscape as a browser who was then bought out by AOL.

Used Windows 2.0, what a nightmare.

[JwMonE99]

I remember going into chat rooms, A/S/L and S2R were my most used words.