Make AO1 and TO5 Restricted Screen Names

Date 1998Founded unknownSubmitted By GLSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive By going to kw:names and typing “blahblahAO” and pressing enter, it will return something like “blahblahAO19837″ and “AO1″ is a restricted prefix. You could also make TO5…

Creating Indented and 2 char AIM sns

Date Summer 1998Founded UnknownSubmitted By GLSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The AIM registration process allowed 2 char screen names to be created along with indented screen names. Indents could be over the 2 character limit present…

Chat Con/Con Punt

Date 2000Founded unknownSubmitted By Contributed By: PHAT Addition:ScSaSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The Con/Con punt is actually a Windows exploit that can done through AOL. It only affects users in chatrooms with their sounds turned on.…

Freezing Color Profiles

Date 2000Founded UnknownSubmitted By PHATSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Color and elite profiles are still very popular today, almost every teenager with AOL has “elite” colors in their profile. Color profiles started out as normal HTML…

CL Pin Cracking

Date July 2000Founded Chris, Nore and Hyrdro – Updated 2.8.01Submitted By Contributed By: Tau Correction: Nore and HydroSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This exploit allowed CL pin numbers to be cracked via an AOL web site.…

AIM Punt String

Date 2000Founded unknownSubmitted By PHATSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive AIMers were able to be punted offline with ease. The trick was simple enough. Send the AIM victim an Instant Message with the message &.#770;. The user…

Quick Checkout Loophole

Date Late 2000Founded TauSubmitted By TauSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive “AOL Quick Checkout allows you to store credit card and shipping information at a secure site on AOL’s computers. That way, when you’re shopping at merchants…

DED Screen Names Regular

Date 2000Founded Rikky?Submitted By Tau and Pure (who submitted similar information)Source AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Dead, aka “ded”, screen names are screen names that can be accessed even though they technically belong to no account. The…