Although I progressed from my childhood into my teens in the 90s, l don’t retain much memory of the internet back then as l had no exposure to it.

  • A_Random_IdiotEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    I almost never see anyone talking about AOL proggies.

    Those things were so legit. Half of them probably were viruses, but being able to run games in chatrooms and such were so awesome.

    • Thebeardedsinglemalt
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Oh they were! I had a huge collection of those full suite proggies, a couple different punters, phishing tools, and servers. I even programmed my own punter at one point.

      • A_Random_IdiotEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Yep. I remember AOHell and Firetoolz specifically, though I’m sure i had others, lol.

        edit

        AOL deserved all the hate it got, but it was also such a great place to be… Keywords, chatrooms galore, AIM, it was definitely a magical time.