How It All Started

I hear ya on this one... Remember getting PWS'd on my permie AOL account that had several 3character accounts (t0y, b0x, r0b, h4k) Had to check the startup line on msconfig, system.ini, win.ini Remember hex editing PWS's to find the @ email .com https://twitter.com/r0wdy_/status/874747312022540290

Three 17-year-olds take credit for inserting pornographic images into America Online’s widely used chat service. Users of the latest version of AOL's Instant Messenger (AIM) software started encountering an unpleasant surprise on Saturday morning: At least three crackers -- malicious hackers -- began inserting pornographic images into "AIM Today" and vandalizing content on at least four screens of the chat software. Since last August, users.....
Color XP Rocker (Read Me)

Color Rocker made by aLexcontact: aim(thugginaLex)email(ioseralex@aol.com)if you need help, email meif you dont know what thebuttons do then just wait forthe tool tip to pop up withinstructions :P, enjoi! 100%made by aLex, idea fromdarren, help from mykeand nitroid, also sinac   TO USE THIS PROGRAM, USE WINZIP AND EXTRACT THE FILESDOUBLE CLICK ON THE BANNER TO ENTER THE PROGRAM!!!!!NOTE: THIS PROGRAM ONLY WORKS ON WINDOWS.....
Send Chat Fixer (Read Me)

Extract all files to a new directory... Open "SendChat Fixer.exe"... It will sit in your SysTray if all goes right... Open an old prog that you thought stopped working... Try it in a chatroom, if you see the text,than it is working!! Thanks to FlufffyCow at http://www.flufffycow.hispeed.com!
Who is Smokey?

All my life I have loved computers, even as a kid when the only ones out were those apple’s (the ones wolfenstein worked with). I remember just pucnhing keys on the keyboard as if it were connected & as if I were this elite computer wizard. So in the 90’s when AOL first came out my father bought the family our first computer. I remember.....

San Francisco -- Speculations were rampant during the course of the week, as discussion groups, security newsletters and even headlines jumped at what appeared to be another high-profile hack targetting Redmond based software giant, Microsoft. Well, there may have been a hack - but Microsoft wasn't the victim. It began with a trickle of commentary, but by the end of the week, thousands of internet users.....

3char was an idea concocted by Kenton and Pacman a few weeks ago while on a phone conference with Mage and some others.  Everyone on the conference was saying “3CHAR!” and “I WILL PUNT JOO” in funny voices.  I wish I had it recorded.  I talked with Pacman about buying the domain and he did.  None of the stuff here is real, it’s just funny.  It’s meant to be a spoof of “real” AOL news sites like Observers.net, Inside-AOL.com, OpenAOL.com, etc.  Enjoy.  We should be moving webhosters in the next week or so, so don’t freak out when you get a DNS error.

Comments are welcome:

Pacman – paul@kraproom.com
AIM: pacman

Kenton – kent@kenton.org
AIM: kenton

Viowatch – viowatch@gosh.net

Mage – Mage@all-evil.net