AOL PSO Tools — original AOL screenshot

A snapshot of the PSO Tools menu, with links for RM Grinder & ART Press, Rainman Tool, Visual Publisher Designer and other publishing resources. The purple layout and folder-style list are preserved in this original screenshot.
Retro computer illustration showing a screen-name sign-up dialog rejecting CoolKid, with xXCoolKid8472Xx on a sticky note and an AOLFOREVER watermark.

Picking a screen name started with something simple like CoolKid. Taken. CoolKid1? Taken. Twenty minutes later you were xXCoolKid8472Xx, like the internet had assigned you a prison number. Then you had to tell somebody your name out loud. “Little x, big X, CoolKid, eight four seven two, big X, little x.” By the time they added you, it was time to get off the computer.
Colorful pixel-art personal homepage with a guestbook, construction sign, and visitor counter showing seven.

Flaming text, a guestbook, stars in the background and an under construction sign that stayed up for three years. Your visitor counter said 7 and six of those were you checking if the damn counter worked. Still had more personality than half the internet today.
RANT |  WEB & THE E/N SCENE

Lol pretty god damn close. I remember always creating some sort of 90s website whether it was video game cheat codes, southpark, pokemon or whatever I was really feeling at that time. Later evolving into one of the scenes that I loved the most . The E/N (Everything/Nothing) or "blogs". We called them E/N Sites because they consisted of content that was basically "everything" and.....
Bobby Prince, composer of classic id Software and 3DRealms FPS video game music, dead at 81

Robert Caskin Prince III, also known as Bobby Prince, has died at the age of 81. The iconic video game composer and sound designer worked on classic FPS video games Doom, Doom II, Wolfenstein 3D, Quake, and Duke Nukem 3D back in the 1990s and his work helped legitimize video game music as an artform. The sad news was made publc via an obituary posted on legacy.com:.....
Hacking ARPANET

**************************************** Hacking ARPANET -- Part I by The SOURCE of -=>*The Listening Post*<=- 408-923-7575***************************************INTRODUCTION------------ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency NETwork) was funded by the Departmentof Defense (DOD) in 1969 as an experiment in sharing the resources of manydifferent types of computers. Earlier DOD systems (AUTODIN,for example), reliedon linking computers that were the same make, using the same operating systems.Work on ARPANET was performed under contract by.....
The Anonymity Tutorial

The Anonymity Tutorial / written by yours truly, R a v e N (blacksun.box.sk) <=============================================================================> version 1.5, 22/3/00 Note: whenever you see something like this: blah(1) it means that if you don't understand the meaning of the word blah there's an explanation for it just for you, located on the newbies corner on section 1. Note 2: if you're having a hard time reading this.....
AOL 5.0 Mexico Style Guide

Style Guide Table of Contents 1      Table of Contents..................................... 2 2      Forms....................................................... 3 2.1      General............................................. 3 3      System Text.............................................. 3 3.1      Input Field Labels............................. 3 3.2      Regular Text..................................... 3 3.3      Header Text...................................... 3 3.4      Column Headers............................... 3 3.5      Note Text.......................................... 3 3.6      Control and Radio Button Text.......... 3 3.7      Subheadings and Array Labels.......... 4 4      Client Art Icons........................................ 5 4.1      General............................................. 5 4.2      Label Text.....
Lithium Node

About Lithium NodeIt all started back in June of 1996. Some guy in a chat room gave me my first prefix, 4019-1, and I used that to sign on AOL for free. I soon got a list of invokes, which were the "in" thing at the time. One of the invokes at the bottom of the list (40-13 785) led to an area which contained.....
Operator of Helix Darknet Cryptocurrency ‘Mixer’ Sentenced in Money Laundering Conspiracy Involving Hundreds of Millions of Dollars

WASHINGTON — Larry Dean Harmon, 41, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to three years in prison for his operation of the darknet cryptocurrency “mixer” Helix, which processed transactions involving over $300 million worth of cryptocurrency from 2014 to 2017.             The sentence was announced by U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves for the District of Columbia; Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney.....