In the late 90-early 2000s, all the rage was PHP2/3, flash and IRC. We had a small hosting company with a friend, backed by a workstation in his room. We would

In the late 90-early 2000s, all the rage was PHP2/3, flash and IRC. We had a small hosting company with a friend, backed by a workstation in his room. We would host small websites with PHP and PHPMySQL, as well as eggdrop and bouncers. Most of these kinds of hosting were flaky and half baked at the time, and we were no exception. There was a brutal war of who would become the biggest host of egg drops and bouncers. I'm not specially proud of it, but we did manage to find some PHP vulnerabilities on some competitor website (the typical kind at the time, where you type "?page=index.html" and that would load anything). We managed to upload one of our PHP files on their server as an avatar on their PHPbb forum, and could then execute it with the include-from-url vuln. We then proceeded to host eggdrops as PHP scripts on their servers that we would start by just loading the page we uploaded there. No real harm done though, I think both us and them were just teenagers way too concerned by IRC social status :)