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On AOL in chatrooms you could play sounds, so if you sent S{/con/con As the sound, you could crash anyone on windows that hadn't shut off user sounds. My memor
by genewitch 2y ago
On AOL in chatrooms you could play sounds, so if you sent S{/con/con
As the sound, you could crash anyone on windows that hadn't shut off user sounds.
My memory is a bit hazy and I don't want to look up the exact sequence, but that's close enough.
- genewitch 2y agohttps://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/breaches/con2k.htm https://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/breaches/c... it was `{S /con/con`; my memory transposed two characters. the {S was the "system message" that AOL chatrooms used to send sounds, so that sequence of characters after a newline made your computer look for that sound. It was cool if everyone was trusted to not do the /con/con, people would have email chains with the audio files on them, like a proto-napster.