IRC was always the source of these files. The uploaders would go on irc and Usenet then use winrar to split them into mail attachments. AOL was just a distribution model to those that didn’t know how to use IRC. But it certainly didn’t come after, it was there long before and during this era.
A lot of the fileserve bots on IRC were hosted on rooted international and .edu boxen.
So essentially we should thank all the inexperienced Linux admins of the early 90s for having so many easy to compromise machines on unmonitored networks and then forgetting about them. ;)
AOL OH accounts with no rate limits on chat sends, were the most fun. You could essentially dos whole rooms offline. calling AOL to get mail rate limits lifted was always fun too, explaining why you needed unlimited sending throughout. It was also interesting how many AOL employees were in on the game too, specially once people started paying for names.
A lot of the fileserve bots on IRC were hosted on rooted international and .edu boxen.
So essentially we should thank all the inexperienced Linux admins of the early 90s for having so many easy to compromise machines on unmonitored networks and then forgetting about them. ;)
AOL OH accounts with no rate limits on chat sends, were the most fun. You could essentially dos whole rooms offline. calling AOL to get mail rate limits lifted was always fun too, explaining why you needed unlimited sending throughout. It was also interesting how many AOL employees were in on the game too, specially once people started paying for names.
Does anyone know what happened to gosh(utoh) ?