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Comment by alphis001 | Hacker News Reader

This is BS.

The away message was invented by AOL "proggers" which included, amongst other features, the Away Message. This was long before AOL simply absorbed that feature. If you remember Fate/FateX, Sublime, Paladin, Magenta, and the other infinite number of tools many of them had this feature. AOL just copied it because like most awesome things, it was invented by the users' creativity.

AOHell4LYFE.

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> From the beginning of AOL there was instant messaging. Barry noticed that users had created scripts to query whether their friends were online or not. So he decided we should just let them know all the time. He commissioned an initial version of the Buddy List, that worked within AOL. It didn’t scale well, though—we called it the Buggy List.

I used to use all these AIM programs, which got me interested in coding!

I enjoyed reverse engineering AIM exploit programs, there was one called subterfuge by sevens from esotericcode.com below... Thanks for the nostalgia!

https://web.archive.org/web/20060701053020/http://www.esoter...

>If you remember Fate/FateX, Sublime, Paladin, Magenta

Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time

Punting was my first exposure to cyber warfare, miss those days

I enjoyed reverse engineering AIM exploit programs, there was one called subterfuge by sevens from esotericcode.com

https://web.archive.org/web/20060701053020/http://www.esoter...

Got my start writing proggies. Private channel vb/vb4 represent.

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