Remember these? The interwebs was funny, back then. My, have we come a long way. The modern day "AOL proggie" is something like AdBlock Plus, in my opinion.
What say you?
AOHell, Fate X and HaVok from what I remember back in the AOL days.
This theme song brings back memories: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNzYIEY-CcM
Of course.. Most of the names slip my mind but I remember FireToolz 3.0, AOHell, Pepsi. So many more. I remember most had musical intros when you would load them. Punting, phishing, IM bombs.
Those were crazy times of aol. I started with AOL 2.5 and remember the days of getting in the "warez" chat rooms to subscribe to the "mass mails". Those usually consisted of games being broken into 100 parts to your email and were stripped down versions to begin with (they would rip out movies/music in the game to save space).
I remember stumbling upon a website which had a lot of these "proggies" archived.. Wonder if that is still around.
I also remember scrollers where you could send long text messages or giant ASCII art pictures through the chat input box in the chat rooms with a scroller. AOL cracked down on this and started booting people when they would scroll too many messages within a certain period of time. If you had multiple AOL accounts and you logged on with multiple versions of AOL you could use them in alternating fashion to send a message or picture one line at a time so that you could still scroll in the chat. You could basically control a chat room and make all the other people leave by dominating the chat.
I remember going to war with other chat rooms a few times where you would invade the other person's chat with scrollers and use punters to boot each other offline. You would also use the tossing programs to try to get each others accounts banned.
ahh look script kiddies.