The “Aa” Token Platform Trick

Date Early 2000
Founded Hypah
Submitted By O0O
Source AOL-Files.com/FDO-Files.com Archive

Using a scanner program Hypah looked through all the various language codes searching for any wierd responses. Using this scanner he was able to find several language codes, one of them 1221, which would send a message using the Aa token to a chat room. The message would come from online host and say.

OnlineHost: has sent a message that your platform can’t display

This message also appears when AOL users with Japanese accounts and software come to English chat rooms.

AOL did not really patch this, it still works, but its usefulness as a way to disrupt chat rooms anonymously was taken away when AOL included the screen name of the person who sent the message in the OnlineHost response.

This Aa token language code trick led to Hypah discovering indented screen names.