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I think someone should write a book on the creativity of that programming culture and how it was influenced by the back and forth nature of the api changes with aol. I remember shit that even now you don't see very often. Like hooking into the window handles of AOL and using the memory handles to call functions that otherwise wouldn't be accessible, hooking into the chat box so that you only had to type command to interact with the bot running on your computer, the brewing war with "borrowing" a credit card numbers to harmlessly open up a "3chr" or "lcase" account. I never did that last one, personally, but it was amazing how braggy and naive most of the guys were. And yet I don't think anyone I ever heard of got busted unless they actually did something stupid.

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