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AOL Underground

AOL Underground

By Steve Stonebraker

Interviews with users, hackers, and staff of America Online (AOL), covering the 90’s/Early 2000’s.
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Sim114 - AOL UK, Love for FDO Forms

AOL UndergroundOct 26, 2023

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01:03:47
Sim114 - AOL UK, Love for FDO Forms
Oct 26, 202301:03:47
Broast - Botnet Cracker, Exploits, Digital Gangster
Jul 30, 202349:06
Pen - Password Stealer Detector, Pen Tools
Jul 29, 202324:05
Single - NV2, Carding, Swatting
Apr 12, 202344:54
AOL History from the people that lived it (part3) - Erci Stern

AOL History from the people that lived it (part3) - Erci Stern

Oct 05, 202201:13:58
AOL History from the people that lived it (part2) - Craig, Jan, Bryan, Erci

AOL History from the people that lived it (part2) - Craig, Jan, Bryan, Erci

Staff from 1987-2007 (with over 35 years combined experience) talk about their experience while working at AOL.  You will hear about the Eworld, Tandylink, Commodore 64, Telnet, RAINMAN, Jay Levitt, Hackers, Q-Guides, scalability issues, and more.

Guests:

  • Craig Braquet
  • Jan DeLucien
  • Bryan Teague
  • Erci Stern

Host: Steve Stonebraker

CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold.

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Craig Braquet

Craig's famous Quora post - https://bit.ly/3OOeijL

All of Us:

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Jan DeLucien

Surviving a brain injury, my story --Trying to be Virtuous

About Brain Injury Services - An Interview

Click here to donate your brain (posthumously, or course)

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Bryan Teague

https://bryanteague.com

https://medium.com/@bryanlteague

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Erci Stern

Fancy Cats and Dogs Rescue - I foster for them each year and adopt all my personal pets from them.  They are a truly caring and amazing animal rescue organization. www.fancycats.org

Doctors without Borders - I give to this organization because there are so many people around the world who don't have access to western style medicine for whom what we consider simple procedures would be life altering benefits. https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

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AOL Underground Podcast

Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠

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Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠

Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground⁠⁠

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Reconnect with old AOLers -

Oct 03, 202201:08:01
AOL History from the people that lived it (part1) - Craig, Jan, Bryan, Erci

AOL History from the people that lived it (part1) - Craig, Jan, Bryan, Erci

Staff from 1987-2007 (with over 35 years combined experience) talk about their experience while working at AOL.  You will hear about the Quantum Link hacker, Jenny C, the "Fives" hack, outages, how multiple departments were formed, the Habitat game, What made AOL special, Honeywell Multics, innovation, auditoriums, Tandy Link, Apple Link, and more.

Guests:

  • Craig Braquet
  • Jan DeLucien
  • Bryan Teague
  • Erci Stern

Host: Steve Stonebraker

CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold.

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Craig Braquet

Craig's famous Quora post - https://bit.ly/3OOeijL

All of Us:

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Jan DeLucien

Surviving a brain injury, my story --Trying to be Virtuous

About Brain Injury Services - An Interview

Click here to donate your brain (posthumously, or course)

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Bryan Teague

https://bryanteague.com

https://medium.com/@bryanlteague

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Erci Stern

Fancy Cats and Dogs Rescue - I foster for them each year and adopt all my personal pets from them.  They are a truly caring and amazing animal rescue organization. www.fancycats.org

Doctors without Borders - I give to this organization because there are so many people around the world who don't have access to western style medicine for whom what we consider simple procedures would be life altering benefits. https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/

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AOL Underground Podcast

Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠

Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠

Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠

Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground⁠⁠

Contact the Host -⁠⁠ https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/⁠⁠

Reconnect with old AOLers -

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Other

Check out my wife's Etsy shop - ⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker


Aug 01, 202201:15:30
Surf Kahuna (part 2) - More on AOL virus guy, Steve and Ryan nerd out on ransomware and Advanced Persistent Threats
Jul 28, 202201:14:32
Surf Kahuna (part 1) - Origin story of a Digital Forensic Incident Responder (DFIR)
Jul 25, 202258:06
hiwind - Developer for life, author of hiwind.bas
Jul 22, 202201:12:07
keeb - Name collectors, keeb.bas, spamming, chat coms, docker origin story

keeb - Name collectors, keeb.bas, spamming, chat coms, docker origin story

Chat with @keeb about his keeb.bas file, his first phishing website, creating chat coms in any text field, high school programming, and his career in business development.  This lead to working at Docker, Rancher Labs, at Kentik

Guest: keeb

Host: Steve Stonebraker

CoverArt: Created by Broast (https://broast.org), original idea by LampGold.

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Follow keeb on Twitter - https://twitter.com/nickstinemates

keeb's website - https://keeb.dev/

Kentik - https://kentik.com

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AOL Underground Podcast

Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠

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Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠

Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground⁠⁠

Contact the Host -⁠⁠ https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/⁠⁠

Reconnect with old AOLers -

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Episode chapters

00:00:00 Intro

00:01:02 First time got on AOL

00:02:46 How did you find the scene?

00:03:24 First programs used

00:05:54 Laggers

00:06:29 Collaboration

00:08:10 dos32.bas and OCX files

00:09:24 Open source programming

00:10:06 Keeb.bas

00:11:37 Looking back at old code

00:12:48 Spamming and Operator Accounts

00:14:37 Did you release any of your programs?

00:15:22 Keebs Cookies

00:20:26 Spamming

00:21:59 First phishing website

00:23:55 Creating website with AOL UI

00:29:10 Chat com in any text editor

00:29:59 College Credit VB Programming Class

00:33:41 Background on Extra Classes

00:35:42 High School Programming

00:35:54 Post AOL

00:38:03 Career in Business Development

00:39:00 Working at Docker

00:43:01 Docker Origin Story

00:44:28 First Version of Docker

00:45:13 Kubernetes

00:46:18 Openstack

00:49:43 Rancher Labs

00:50:20 Kentik

00:56:02 Synthetic Testing

01:01:17 Apple Password 128 characters

01:03:57 Goodbye



Jul 20, 202201:05:06
z0ne - Chatroom Laggers, Arrested, Spamming, Nerdcore, opsec44
Jun 26, 202250:25
PoSsE4uS (part2) - The Dark Knight
Jun 25, 202223:22
tagz and shellz - Getting swatted, planting trojans, and the death of AOL
Jun 20, 202201:23:56
PoSsE4uS (part1) - ReAOL Begins
Jun 18, 202232:20
cam0 (part3) - Twitter Account Takeovers
Jun 10, 202238:15
cam0 (part2) - Paris Hilton hack, Prison, Police Dept hack
Jun 10, 202257:08
cam0 (part1) - Merlin, Ewoks, and botnets
Jun 09, 202253:37
Emerge - Cracking Conference Calls, a Startup, Web3, NFTs
May 27, 202201:06:38
YTCracker -Spamming, Trojans, and Pwning AOL

YTCracker -Spamming, Trojans, and Pwning AOL

YTCracker takes AOL hacking to a whole new level.  Phishing employees, pwning the Customer Records Information System (CRIS), multi-threaded spamming via FDO, packet manipulation, and creating chatbots to lure lamers to his pay per click sites.  He also likes rapping about his adventures.

Parts of his songs are played throughout the episode.  Check out the Episode Extras to see screenshots of his programs and actual videos of his chatbot and API mailer in action!

If you enjoyed his episode be sure to let him know over at @realytcracker on twitter.  Shoutout to @dualcoremusic for their track "I Remember (ft. ytcracker).


Episode Extras: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/ytcracker/


Guest: YTCracker

Host: Steve Stonebraker

Audio and Sound: Podcast edited and mastered by Charlie Clark, https://www.fiverr.com/chuckaudio


Music in episode

YTCracker - Introducing Neals - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ot2FFc_Qq4

YTCracker - Spametc - Delilah

YTCracker - AOFlashback

Dual Core - I Remember (ft. ytcracker)

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AOL Underground Podcast

Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠

Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠

Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠

Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground⁠⁠

Contact the Host -⁠⁠ https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/⁠⁠

Reconnect with old AOLers -

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Other

Check out my wife's Etsy shop - ⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker

May 23, 202201:09:39
Tau – Creator of AOL-FILES.com
May 10, 202252:28
Da Chronic – Creator of AOHell and Automated Phishing

Da Chronic – Creator of AOHell and Automated Phishing

In 1995 Da Chronic released a program called ‘AO Hell’ that wreaked havoc on America Online.  It allowed users to phish entire chat rooms, “punt” people offline, "mail bomb" user inboxes, and to scroll ASCII art in chat rooms. This lead to thousands of copycat programs and a new subculture within AOL.  It inspired a generation of teenagers and twenty-somethings to learn how to program, decompile, and wreak havoc. Hear firsthand why Da Chronic unleashed this program on the world. 

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Episode Extras: https://aolunderground.com/episode-extras/da-chronic/

Guest: Da Chronic 

Host: Steve Stonebraker  - https://twitter.com/brakertech 

Special Thanks Audio Editing and Sound - Adam Joesph https://www.adamjosephsounds.com/ 

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AOL Underground Podcast

Follow us on twitter - ⁠⁠@AOLUnderground⁠⁠ ⁠⁠@brakertech⁠⁠

Reddit - ⁠https://www.reddit.com/r/AOLUnderground/⁠

Merch - ⁠⁠https://www.redbubble.com/people/AOL-Underground/shop⁠⁠

Donate - ⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AOLUnderground⁠⁠

Contact the Host -⁠⁠ https://aolunderground.com/contact-host/⁠⁠

Reconnect with old AOLers -

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Audio License info Emotional Inspiring Piano | LOST by Alex-Productions | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx0_M61F81Nfb-BRXE-SeVA Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US

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Other

Check out my wife's Etsy shop - ⁠https://www.etsy.com/shop/Snowbraker

Jan 08, 202201:08:12
Lucid – Fake Credit Cards, Law & Order
Oct 16, 202150:30
FLaMe – Cracking, Carding, and Spamming on AOL in the 90s
Oct 08, 202141:13
z0ne – Programming, Cracking, and Spamming on AIM and Twitter in the 2000s
Sep 15, 202140:56
HoSS – Programming Chaos on AOL in the 90s… and a new Wife!
Sep 14, 202129:13
Trailer

Trailer

Trailer Episode for AOL Underground, with HoSS and z0ne
Sep 12, 202101:39