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Had my (parents’) AOL account terminated when I was 11 years old (1999) for pirating Visual Basic 4 from an AOL mail server chat . Listened to that sweet dial u
by marpstar 9y ago
Had my (parents’) AOL account terminated when I was 11 years old (1999) for pirating Visual Basic 4 from an AOL mail server chat . Listened to that sweet dial up connection sound before being greeted with an account termination message. Had no idea what “piracy” even meant.
- allcentury 9y agoFunny enough I also got banned for "life", whatever that term meant. I got netzero for free for a while and that's actually how I found my replacement for AOL ... IRC. That community really helped me go from tinkerer to full on coder in a short summer.
- _e 9y agoYou could add '^' to the modem string to silence the modem sound.
- loopbit 9y agoBut... but.. If you did, how would you know within the first few seconds if the connection would work? You'd have to wait until you got the success or error message.