AOL 3.0 reverse engineered

Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by TedDoesntTalk on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:23PM (#31634037)

I’m sorry for your loss. I enjoyed reading this even though I am probably 15 years older, I have a similar story with the predecessors to AOL (BBS systems).

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Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by nickstinemates on Sunday June 05, 2022 @05:11PM (#31634900)

TY for the kind words. The end of this post took place in 1997 and while the effect still lingers, I can only be grateful that my outlet was productive.

Funny enough, AOL was the gateway drug. I found things like usenet, irc, and bbs's and graduated to these things. My early teens were spent in those neighborhoods before moving on to LAMP stacks and more productive programming.

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Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by hydr0 on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:22PM (#31636771)

I am also old school AOLer who's curiosity in programming sparked by making 'progs'.

I also had the Mad Dog McCree CD-Rom as a kid on my Gateway 2000 Pentium 60mhz. Shooting up that stagecoach!

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Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by nickstinemates on Sunday June 05, 2022 @10:53PM (#31636893)

There might have been a lot of hydro/0's but your handle is very familiar. If you hung out in vb/4 in the 90s I am sure we crossed paths.

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Re:AOL 3.0 reverse engineered by TedDoesntTalk on Sunday June 05, 2022 @03:25PM (#31634053)

I had the privilege of dining with an ex-CEO of AOL around 2017 or so (long after his retirement). I was prepared to rail him for taking advantage of Americans, but he was such a humble and fascinating guy… no.

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