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There was a big underground movement using Visual Basic and variations on dos32.bas to do interesting things on top of AOL's client.

• jasonwatkinspdx 13y ago
  That sounds fascinating. Is there a good write up for someone totally unfamiliar with that world and that doesn't want to get into the weeds, but is interested in what the community was like?
  • mkr-hn 13y ago
    Here you go: http://articles.marco.org/44 http://articles.marco.org/44 There are some references in this thread if you want to go deeper: http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/was-anybody-else-part-of-the-aim-aol-prog-era-of-internet-nerdism.452512613/ http://www.ign.com/boards/threads/was-anybody-else-part-of-t... This was one of the more popular programmers: http://patorjk.com/blog/programming/ http://patorjk.com/blog/programming/