Yep, idling to win out chatroom ownership when AOL reset the server. Using Tameclone to flood out clients and Uccom (or bizkit047's version of it) to take over and moderate. It was my first real move into programming and running a server in my basement.
I still have all of my source code. My only claim to fame was I wrote a program to automate the generation of ICQ accounts (which could login to AIM for botting, and were harder to ban since you couldn't setup a wildcard match for the screen names being all "random" numbers.) Apparently it was good enough that someone felt it was worth cracking my crappy copy protection.
Do you remember an old ICQ program that generated accounts with user defined numbers so long as they weren't already in use? The software was hosted on a page with quite a few other ICQ related applications. I'd love to find an archive of the site.
I still have all of my source code. My only claim to fame was I wrote a program to automate the generation of ICQ accounts (which could login to AIM for botting, and were harder to ban since you couldn't setup a wildcard match for the screen names being all "random" numbers.) Apparently it was good enough that someone felt it was worth cracking my crappy copy protection.