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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
by Eclyps 9y ago
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.
- allcentury 9y agoSame! 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.
- platz 9y agoI got my family account banned for chat room ascii scripts
- mrpound 9y agoMe too, haha
- allcentury 9y agothose were the best!
- dec0dedab0de 9y agoMe 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
- vogt 9y agoYep, 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)
- cdiamand 9y agoHaha! Punting. Man that brings me back. I think there was a program called moo toolz?
- Domenic_S 9y agoAOHell!