Pepsi Prog was the one that led me into an AOL warez mailserver chat to obtain a pirated copy of Visual Basic 4 to try and build my own prog. At 11 years old.
I later forwarded the email with the VB4 installer attached to it to another AOL user. AOL detected that and terminated my family's account.
AOL hacks are what got me into software development. Learning APIs and writing client servers and file access was super cool. Hex editing binaries followed by patching stuff and debuggers to do memory hacking paved the way. Demoscene 64k compos will always hold a special place in my heart.
