There's a great podcast about the old hacks and warez for AOL that interviews the developers, hackers, and AOL employees from that era: https://aolunderground.com/
This is great! Thank you!
Edit: 39 episodes wtf
a/s/l?
I tell my kids not to share shit with anyone now. It's hilarious to me that it was literally the first thing you did when I was their age.
It stops +++ATH0 in a IP packet (such as in a ping request, web page, etc) hanging up the modem by requiring a delay between the escape sequence (+++) and the ATH0 command.
Basically, it makes it so you don't get disconnected if someone tricks you into typing "+++ATH0"