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garcet71283 - 2015-05-20

I just sat in front of my browser to watch a man browse through another browser.

Stars.


infinite zest - 2015-05-20

yo dawg I heard you liked browsers


infinite zest - 2015-05-20

Weird. So they had a bot in there that gives you her stats and asks for a cigarette programmed in there? That's extra strange given how many parents used AOL simply for their kids because it was basically Internet without Internet (I mean you could get on the internet through AOL but what child is going to try,) so they couldn't stumble across stuff like that.


EvilHomer - 2015-05-20

What makes you think that was a bot?


infinite zest - 2015-05-20

I didn't watch the whole thing, just skipped to that part. Is aim even a thing anymore and if you use it does it actually show up in a program with no service? Like this is just like those addons that get put on your internet browser if you're not careful and click "yes," right? Internet or no internet connection the links and stuff still work because they were actually downloaded.


EvilHomer - 2015-05-20

It's not AIM. Or rather, it is, but it's an early version of AIM, a sort of "pre-AIM" that was built-in to AOL 4.0 and allowed users to IM each other. The chick sending him the message was presumably one of the people hanging out in chatroom he visited briefly; I haven't been on AOL since the late 90s, but that sort of behavior (show up in a chatroom, immediately get deluged with A/S/L and various sexual requests) was pretty common in those days.


infinite zest - 2015-05-20

Still doesn't make a ton of sense to me, are you saying it's sort of the "peparoni and chease" in Oregon Trail? Just a ghost message that got stuck in .rom or whatever?


EvilHomer - 2015-05-21

No, it's a real person, signed on to AOL, sending an actual message in real time to Mr LGR. That message you saw there, it is actually someone trying to communicate with another person, in a manner that has been almost completely lost to history for the past decade and a half.


fluffy - 2015-05-22

Yeah when I was a kid and on AOL I'd actually report those folks to the 'AOL guardians' or whatever the fuck they were called but I don't think anything ever came from it.


EvilHomer - 2015-05-22

"Community Leaders" (Guardian was their parental content-filtering service, IIRC). My mom worked as one of them (the AOL mods, not the child molestors). There was absolutely nothing they could do; when a pedo got reported, the CLs could lock the offending party out of their free AOL account, but of course, the pedofork would just make a new screen-name and be right back on in ten minutes. I don't think they even had the capability to issue IP bans in those days.


EvilHomer - 2015-05-20

Is the Red Dragon Inn still accessible?


theSnake - 2015-05-20

oh my god I used to troll that chat room so hard. I would always "roleplay" having a really powerful sword and then cut peoples RP characters head off with it. Sounds tame in retrospect but this was like 1994 and people took the Red Dragon Inn very seriously.


EvilHomer - 2015-05-20

Yeah, I was ten years old and I loved to pretend like I was killing everyone in the room (my favorite weapon was an atomic bomb that I'd stick up people's butts). Sometimes I'd go find random private rooms, and harass the people trying to have cyber-sex in them. There were a lot of vampire cyber-sex RPs for some reason.

RDI and ParaScope were my two favorite hangout spots, until I got a bit older, and realized that the real fun wasn't talking in chatrooms, it was using the AOHell punter to force random people to log-off and lose their accounts.


theSnake - 2015-05-20

AoHell, oh memories. I never used the features of dubious legality like phishing but I punted people and mailbombed them. When people privately messaged me to complain my favorite tactic was to reveal my young age and accuse them of being a pedophile for messaging me, since I had just learned what that word meant.


Old_Zircon - 2015-05-21

I completely missed AOL, my family did the "sign up for the free month of Compuserve and use their web portal to comparison shop for real ISPs in your area) route, so my introduction to the Internet was IRC and usenet, and then the web via the World Wide Warez Board. PoE Red was only the second place I ever posted.


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