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Every time I listen to "The Chronic" by Dr Dre I'm reminded of how impressed I was by the "AOHell" installer. It was the perfect mix of BBS/demoscene culture a

• rootw0rm 4y ago
  And here I only remember AOHell's Nine Inch Nails references...
• cfeduke 4y ago
  Yes, Remote Automated INformation MANager... my sort of introduction to "programming" as it was. Almost two decades later, my co-worker at a startup was one of the original engineers at AOL (after the name change) and worked on RAINMAN among other things. Anytime someone brings it up, I have fond memories.
• nirav72 4y ago
  My favorite feature in AOHell was the chatroom text spoofing .where you could make it appear as if someone else had typed something. Later when I got access to the VB source for AOhell , I found out how it was done. The dev had figured out a clever trick to exploit the way the chatroom window did line wrapping. Also who can forget the ASCII middle finger that one could scroll across the chatroom. Those were fun days. I had a decent local dial isp. But still logged onto AOL for the 'warez'. It seemed like AOL provided unlimited email attachment storage. So warez files were traded over email in AOL via multipart RAR file attachments.