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AOL Underground

Interviews with users, hackers, and staff of America Online (AOL), covering the 90’s/Early 2000’s.

Podcast · By Steve Stonebraker · American English · Official site

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  1. Episode · Sep 5, 2026

    Snex - Phishing, Trojans, IRC (opens the original)

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    Snex walks through inventing an early mass-phishing scheme and a destructive Trojan and a self-replicating worm he ran on IRC. Highlights Include: Learning BASIC at five on a Tandy, then reverse-engineering AOL base files as a teenager Optimizing the legendary punter Genocide's duplicate-removal routine Downgrading AOL 3.0 back to 2.0 to dodge punters Building a custom menu into the AOL client window AOL Secrets, the Lithium Node crew, and sneaking into AOL Live's backstage Inventing an early ma

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