16 Character AIM Names before Public Release


Date November 1998?Founded MrKane & Many OthersSubmitted By robSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive By Editing the HTML code’s in AOL’s AIM registration webpage you could make AIM names longer than 10 characters.

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 in the same manner.

Star Tool AOL 2.5/3.0 16 bit


Date 1996Founded Unknown, Hexed and Released by Mad MiserySubmitted By O0OSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive This was a huge discovery for PC AOLers. Up until this point PCers were unable to do the things Mac hax0rs were able to with their version of the Star Tool, called Utilities. The Star tool for 16 bit AOL clients came with a limited Atomic Debugger and an invoker for f1 tokens. Within weeks of.....

Creating 12 Char SNs on AOL 2.7 and Possibly 18 Chars


Date 2000 Founded Hypah Submitted By HypahSource AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive The indent trick originally allowed 12 char SNs on AOL 2.7 and presumably would have let 18 char names be made on new AOL’s. However, AOL started double-checking the length in June-July 2000 which is really gay because it prevented many AIMs from being converted on 2.7 as well as longer SNs being made.

AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison


AOL phisher faces up to 101 years in prison By Joris Evers A California man faces up to 101 years in federal prison after a jury found him guilty of sending out e-mail scams as well as related crimes.Jeffrey Brett Goodin, 45, of Azusa, was convicted Friday on multiple counts by a jury in the U.S. District Court for Central District of California in Los.....