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Comment by jlgaddis | Hacker News Reader

Not AOL but

  /ctcp username ping +++ATH0

gave me many hours of enjoyment on IRC.

(Forgive me if I've gotten the syntax wrong, it's been a long time.)

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worked in channels too, everyone with a linksys router would get disconnected. also it was just +ATH0

We might be thinking of different things then. This was specifically aimed at dial-up modems. Cable internet and DSL didnn't really exist. @Home had just launched their cable service around this time, if memory serves.

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