Date Fall 1997Founded Lithium NodeSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This was the first star tool to be discovered since early 1996. It was also the first for the newer 32 bit versions of AOL…
Date July 1997Founded O0O, Lance and a couple others from Lithium NodeSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The tokens to hide/unhide new style message board posts had neither a viewrule or a roster control. This…
Date Summer 1997Founded Lance of Lithium NodeSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Lance created the first major PC FDO file. Done completely in FDO it did not feature any major programming tricks but it was…
Date Feb. 1997Founded KroK of Lithium NodeSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive If you have board tools to one classic message board on AOL. You are able to use the ^J and ^K tokens to…
Date 1997Founded HypahSubmitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The “lib trick” was where you’d find the most recent mF token, then upload a file and through a very little scanning, could access that file with…
Date 1996Founded UnknownSubmitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Typing ]D or ]F on Mac AOL 2.7 or older would unlock null chars, including the return char, allowing you to fake others’ chat and what not.…
Date 1996Founded VariousSubmitted By PHATSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive It started with early versions of AOL (2.5 through late 4.0). AOLers were often punted offline via constant strings of gibberish HTML or other text sent to…
Date Late 1996Founded UnknownSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive There were various versions of VPD but one of the first for the 16-bit AOL 3.0 client was v.50a. 50a supported the ability to browse any…
Date 1995-96Founded UnknownSubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive Using any internal account it was possible to generate OH/Invoice/Internal certs as long as you had a valid promo code for those account types. There was also…
ACI management’s late fall 1998 announcement on procedure for reporting compromised CL accounts is a prime illustration of AOL’s painfully slow reflex in dealing with serious ongoing problems. In fact,…
Before I begin, let me state the following: This is my personal perspective of the history of Warez and the scene in general on America Online (AOL). How the scene…
