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This is BS. The away message was invented by AOL "proggers" which included, amongst other features, the Away Message. This was long before AOL simply absorbed

This is BS. The away message was invented by AOL "proggers" which included, amongst other features, the Away Message. This was long before AOL simply absorbed that feature. If you remember Fate/FateX, Sublime, Paladin, Magenta, and the other infinite number of tools many of them had this feature. AOL just copied it because like most awesome things, it was invented by the users' creativity. AOHell4LYFE. -~[1337 tewlz]~-

rconti 7y ago
> From the beginning of AOL there was instant messaging. Barry noticed that users had created scripts to query whether their friends were online or not. So he decided we should just let them know all the time. He commissioned an initial version of the Buddy List, that worked within AOL. It didn’t scale well, though—we called it the Buggy List.
petropolisful 7y ago
>If you remember Fate/FateX, Sublime, Paladin, Magenta Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time
- patrioticaction 7y ago
  Punting was my first exposure to cyber warfare, miss those days
  - sizzle 7y ago
    I enjoyed reverse engineering AIM exploit programs, there was one called subterfuge by sevens from esotericcode.com https://web.archive.org/web/20060701053020/http://www.esotericcode.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060701053020/http://www.esoter...
sizzle 7y ago
I used to use all these AIM programs, which got me interested in coding! I enjoyed reverse engineering AIM exploit programs, there was one called subterfuge by sevens from esotericcode.com below... Thanks for the nostalgia! https://web.archive.org/web/20060701053020/http://www.esotericcode.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060701053020/http://www.esoter...
nickstinemates 7y ago
Got my start writing proggies. Private channel vb/vb4 represent.
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