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AOL Punter,Progies and Fire toolz

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oogle said:
sent me down memory lane, not sure what year that was taken but i very much appreciate this

shoutoutz2 the og rampage crew psmalls, hazy, ctrl, sizzer, jakez, notion, suffer, poboy, n0x, paste, chevelle and dipp

hope everyone is still breathing into 2014
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sup?welcome2bluelight,your 'every needs' site. much props 2 those guys that put that shit together.
 
oogle said:
sent me down memory lane, not sure what year that was taken but i very much appreciate this

shoutoutz2 the og rampage crew psmalls, hazy, ctrl, sizzer, jakez, notion, suffer, poboy, n0x, paste, chevelle and dipp

hope everyone is still breathing into 2014
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oogle? Aren't you forgetting sirk? ;) (I wasn't part of the "rampage crew," but I hung around you guys... I'm not sirk, though. He's just one of the guys I remember talking to a lot...)

But anyway, yeah, I remember all this shit, progz, punters and shit. What else was there to do back in those days? Go outside? Pfft...

I definitely had my account terminated a whole bunch of times as well. lol
 
I am SO happy I found this thread. Oogle, wow! I remember sirk too.

It's great to see this thread, the names, everyone who was a part of those days and
created the "progz" that kept us inside all the time.

Hazy, I named my daughter after you, no kidding.

psmalls, the most influential, ever.

Everyone named above by oogle, I miss ya!

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- Don't forget smut, entex, pr0g, haXz
 
#throwback

Anyone remember HOST PCCL Tim?

(Edit: I might have been HOST COMP Tim, I don't remember, because HaXz was also a HOST **** Tim)

That was my real community account, I often would moderate chat rooms and then drop into
pr's to gag people.
 
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I don't know how the hell I never got banned... I was terrible with the tools. I can't remember the name of my favorite one (it opened up with Metallica's Master of Puppets playing).

I miss BBSes and mass warez email bombs too.
 
D's said:
haha yeah, when you would type in their account in the [WHO DO YOU WANT TO PUNT] box, you would mass IM, them and close the IM window, and do this atleast 25times per scond, until the person you punted would get kicked off lol.
messing around with progies got involved into some deeper shit then punters, I had federal agents show up @ my house, and here I is only 13. LOL@ wayback when you could make $$ from stores like wally world by using a program on AOL. it was a progie.funtimes lol.

the feds were so bewildered by what i could do that they never charged me, instead they gave me work, and was only 13. this was AOL 2.0-3.0?
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So what happened when the agents showed up? Which branch did they work for?

I did not use those programs and by 95-96 my family had an ISP that was not AOL, and I just used the internet for research, school, and to communicate with friends when it was too late to talk via the phone.
 
I remember AIM being big but MSN was the dominant one in Canada. I still use MSNP for OTR chats although MS has been putting a stranglehold on it since they acquired Skype. Now I can only chat with other contacts using 3rd-party clients, and the Skype users show as offline :\ Back in the day all my AIM contacts were also on IRC so we had a hell of a time fighting netsplitters for op
 
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Whhat was your handle and what private riom did you hang out in


Im ashamed to say i had a grip of aol progs and moved on to spammers when i realized there was money to be made


If you know these programs your something like a hacker:

Trinok's pw cracker
Green eggs and spam
SpaM2k
Spizam
Citrus pw cracker (first program that you had to get a registration key from the creator[citrus]
Disco OH scroller


I spent emberassing amounts of time scamming internal and overhead AOL accoubt with instakiss and eveNtually active x.

Sub7 used to get me hella INTs when it first came out.

Indented screen names (ICASES)

"Leet screen names"



There are actually people that never moved on from this phaze and gather to talk about this shit on a daily basis



I am so embarassed



If you understand 50% of this post dont ever talk to me
 
D's said:
haha yeah, when you would type in their account in the [WHO DO YOU WANT TO PUNT] box, you would mass IM, them and close the IM window, and do this atleast 25times per scond, until the person you punted would get kicked off lol.
messing around with progies got involved into some deeper shit then punters, I had federal agents show up @ my house, and here I is only 13. LOL@ wayback when you could make $$ from stores like wally world by using a program on AOL. it was a progie.funtimes lol.

the feds were so bewildered by what i could do that they never charged me, instead they gave me work, and was only 13. this was AOL 2.0-3.0?
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Trust me the feds and aol werent worried about punters at all. By 1998 you had kids gaining access to the AOL intranet and inner networks. Kids were strealing screen names but had access to the aol's internal program called CRIS and eventually Merlin but had access to CCs numbers so they were charged. Look up "aol hacker cam0"

Plenty of people went to jail and/or got sued using aol to spam. Look up "aol hacker misitk, aol hacker buD and aol hacker ytcracker"

AOL had a shitload of security breaches no one really knew about.

Some kid with a punter was not something anyone was worried about. If a fed came to your door and knew anything about your leet punter you were looking up kiddy porn and they came to see you and stumbked upon it i dont see why a fed would some visit for aomething that stupid. Punters had been around sincr 2.5 which was what....93?

Its embarassing but i got pretty deep into it


I even learned a bit of FDO
 
Resurrect the AOL Environment, Run Proggiez

MemphisX3 said:
Im ashamed to say i had a grip of aol progs and moved on to spammers when i realized there was money to be made
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Hey MemphisX3,

Don't be ashamed. I used a proggie called Fate X Ultra back in the day. I have fond memories of using AOL proggies to flood chatrooms with ASCII art macros... I was obsessed with the 1337 "scene" hacker culture which includes that 8bit keygen music and ASCII drawings as an art form (much like gangs tag their names with graffiti art). This was around 1995 when we had midi keyboard music files. Remember? lol... Here's a video game called Streets of Rage with that iconic hacker-esque vibe to it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Lrd9DHIpA

Now almost 20 years later I was hoping to be able to find the proggies available for download to recreate that AOL 3.0-6.0 environment, but I can't find them anywhere on the world wide web, only archived and ghost sites with broken links to the files. The reason I seek to to do this for a movie prop. I am a screenwriter writing a film about hackers during the '90s. IMO, the film Hackers (1995) didn't do justice to the real hackers of that era. It was cheesy and never expressed real hacker lingo or code to make the film feel legit. The film Track Down (2000) about Kevin Mitnick was okay, but lacked the artistic expression of hacker culture that the creators of Hackers at least attempted to convey.

That's why I was hoping if you knew of a way to resurrect that oldskool AOL environment so we could use the old software (proggies) that ran on Windows 95. Do you, or does anyone else know how I could go about doing this for my film?

TIA :)
 
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D's said:
haha yeah, when you would type in their account in the [WHO DO YOU WANT TO PUNT] box, you would mass IM, them and close the IM window, and do this atleast 25times per scond, until the person you punted would get kicked off lol.
messing around with progies got involved into some deeper shit then punters, I had federal agents show up @ my house, and here I is only 13. LOL@ wayback when you could make $$ from stores like wally world by using a program on AOL. it was a progie.funtimes lol.

the feds were so bewildered by what i could do that they never charged me, instead they gave me work, and was only 13. this was AOL 2.0-3.0?
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This stikes me as a little unbelievable (that they gave you work). This is a popular cultural myth (though in some rare exceptions, it was true) - that earlier on, in that golden age, some people would be hired after they were busted.. However, reading through what you've written, it sounds as though you weren't actually writing the software / scripts yourself, but rather you have downloaded pre-written trojans and were using those to hijack foreign machines / servers.. I find it hard to believe they would offer you work, even though you hadn't written the tools yourself.

Or, as they used to say - give work to a 'script kiddy'.



EDIT: Out of curiosity, what sort of work did they give you? I'm really struggling to imagine what kind of work you were capable of, as a 13 year old kid, who downloaded some popular AOL tools.
 
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aoi said:
Hey MemphisX3,

Don't be ashamed. I used a proggie called Fate X Ultra back in the day. I have fond memories of using AOL proggies to flood chatrooms with ASCII art macros... I was obsessed with the 1337 "scene" hacker culture which includes that 8bit keygen music and ASCII drawings as an art form (much like gangs tag their names with graffiti art). This was around 1995 when we had midi keyboard music files. Remember? lol... Here's a video game called Streets of Rage with that iconic hacker-esque vibe to it... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2Lrd9DHIpA

Now almost 20 years later I was hoping to be able to find the proggies available for download to recreate that AOL 3.0-6.0 environment, but I can't find them anywhere on the world wide web, only archived and ghost sites with broken links to the files. The reason I seek to to do this for a movie prop. I am a screenwriter writing a film about hackers during the '90s. IMO, the film Hackers (1995) didn't do justice to the real hackers of that era. It was cheesy and never expressed real hacker lingo or code to make the film feel legit. The film Track Down (2000) about Kevin Mitnick was okay, but lacked the artistic expression of hacker culture that the creators of Hackers at least attempted to convey.

That's why I was hoping if you knew of a way to resurrect that oldskool AOL environment so we could use the old software (proggies) that ran on Windows 95. Do you, or does anyone else know how I could go about doing this for my film?

TIA :)
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Man, that film sounds fricken awesome ! I hope you see it through.. In regards to ways about going about it, have you looked into crowd-funding the project? I reckon if you put up a project on https://www.kickstarter.com/ you would get a huge amount of interest, if you demonstrated you were serious and had what it takes, anyway. I'd donate!


EDIT: In regards to emulating that environment. I think to begin with you need to install some Win95 VMWare:
https://www.vmware.com/support/ws3/doc/ws32_guestos10.html

Then you need to search the Internet (perhaps use the Wayback machine..) for old AOL installation software and last, you need to find sources for the old-school script-kiddy tools. The last part shouldn't be too hard, PM me if you're genuinely serious about this project.. I know a couple guys who were waaay into the old BB systems and whatnot and still live for that old nostalgia and probably know the sorts of corners on the Internet where these sorts of archives still exist.
 
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suffer said:
I am SO happy I found this thread. Oogle, wow! I remember sirk too.

It's great to see this thread, the names, everyone who was a part of those days and
created the "progz" that kept us inside all the time.

Hazy, I named my daughter after you, no kidding.

psmalls, the most influential, ever.

Everyone named above by oogle, I miss ya!

Edit:
- Don't forget smut, entex, pr0g, haXz
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Just came across this thread. What's up man? my aim died awhile back but I still talk to tree once in awhile.
 
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