2026 AOLUnderground.com Podcast Episodes

February 21, 2026
Rajuabju - ARiSE Warez President, Cardi...
The president of the ARiSE warez group tells us about his experience with BBS, Prodigy, QuantumLink, AOL, and IRC....
01:06:35

January 17, 2026
BMB - AOL-files.com, FDO, Invokes
Pwning AOL with pure FDO. Hacking employee accounts. Downloading AOL files and posting them to aol-files.com. BMB ...
00:58:08

January 06, 2026
BoFeN - Mass Mailers, PW Stealer, ARiSE...
Creator of Millennium, Blizzard, and Code Genie. Despite facing relentless criticism and accusations of code theft...
00:41:18

I'm already listening! I'll be back soon with some more updates!

I'm going to wrap it up here. I've been in denial about being sick since Monday or so, but the symptoms have fully manifested and there's no denying it. Congestion, runny nose, coughing, sore throat, etc., yeah... at least it is not COVID. I hope to have another site update this weekend.

If anyone has some scene-related news that has not been covered here, and you feel it should be: Click my name on a post or go to the contact page! Discord or Email is probably the best way right now. There's 2 Emails I very recently noticed that I'm hopefully going to respond to this weekend. I wasn't checking the account regularly since the messages were so sparse. I will try to do better now!

While running random progz in the Last Call chat room [NINA], I tried to check an Angelfire link from one of the prog's ads. It just so happens that if you go to Angelfire.com right now (6:30 PM EST), you will get a 502 Bad Gateway error. :-(

Notes: Angelfire was a very popular webhost during the AOL-era. Many progs were hosted on Angelfire. (It was even my first non-AOL webhost.) You know, it's sort of rare, but sometimes one of those old links in a prog still works directly, too!

"We became aware of issues users were experiencing accessing Yahoo services globally after rolling out a change to our traffic management system. After reverting the change, Yahoo services have fully recovered with the impact lasting less than an hour."

To be honest, I was busy working, so I didn't even notice and almost missed this piece of news. *shrugs* haha

Links for further reading:

• Downdetector - Yahoo
• Another Outage? Botched System Change Takes Down Yahoo.com, AOL.com
• Yahoo and AOL were down — live updates on massive outage that impacted Yahoo Mail and more
• Yahoo! and Yahoo! Mail Are Down, Reminding Everyone They Still Exist *Spicy*

Site News: Hey! We had a brief period of downtime leading into the new year. I'm hoping you all were too busy celebrating to notice. :-) This downtime was for a good reason, though: our host has upgraded their servers and is passing on the awesomeness (at no additional cost)! The transfer was pretty smooth, too!

Aside from that, I've done some minor housekeeping around the site: tweaked the top banner design, expanded CSS for post quotes. By the time you read this, I will have the 2025 news archive completed. As I do every year, I will leave some of the most recent posts visible on the main page for a couple more weeks.

BeAIM News: Back in November 2024, I mirrored a post from the Phoenix website about BeAIM, a client for BeOS/Haiku by nippos (nikisoft). While I was archiving the news posts, I happened to notice there has been several updates in the past year! This even includes a new project name! For posterity, I will post the changelog since my original post.

2025-12-23 - BumbleBe (formerly BeAIM) Changelog

What's new in version 1.8.0:
  
Rename and rebrand to BumbleBe.
  
No changes in functionality intended.

What's new in version 1.7.1:
  
Fix loading resources when running the application from a non-standard path.
  
Fix crash when deleting a group that still has buddys.
  
Allow shrinking chat windows again after messages have been sent.
    

      
This was broken before, so that every new message locked the minimum window size to the current one, you could then make it even bigger, but not smaller again.
    
  
  
Show profile message and away message (if away) in the "Get User Info" window.
  
Open links only on left click, do nothing on right/middle click.
  
Switch to different color scheme as default if dark system colors are used.
    

      
If you have used BumbleBe before, the light default colors may have already been written to your configuration, so that you don't see a difference here.
    
  
  
Fix some broken combinations of custom font face, size and color in the same message.
  
Add "Get a Screen Name" and "Forgot Password?" links, shown only if the default server is used.
  
Correctly load per-user settings and saved password when switching between accounts in the login window.
  
Add translations for the new strings in English and German.

What's new in version 1.7.0:
  
Rewrite the whole UI to make use of Haikus Layout Kit, rather than hardcoded coordinates.
  
Implement support for HiDPI screens by scaling everything depending on the font size.
  
Move the Changelog into a separate file and reorder it to begin with the latest version.
  
Replace custom MakSplitterView in the ChatWindow with native BSplitView.
  
Integrate PopupTextControl to improve the combined text input+dropdown thingy for the username.
  
Make sure new windows always open within the visible area.
  
Let the TrayIcon scale based on the DeskBars MaxItemWidth() and MaxItemHeight().

What's new in version 1.6.3:
  
Automatically detect https:// links just like the http:// ones, and make them open the browser on click.
  
Enable the commented-out "Style" menu in chat windows and implement the missing pieces for it to work.
  
Add support for strikethrough text (needs hrev58553 at least).
  
Add the previously unused Idle Detector input filter to the package.
  
Make the login progress status text visible.
  
Add translations for the new strings in English and German.

What's new in version 1.6.2:
  
Replace password input to solve a bug with Copy & Paste.
  
Fall back to English if system language is unsupported.
  
Add support for different font families in messages.
  
Look for sounds at the right directories using find_paths - How could the old code ever have worked?
    

      
You still don't get sound yet as a Pull Request to Haiku that implements play_sound still needs to be merged.
    
  
  
Automate generation of debug builds and packages, and document building.

What's new in version 1.6.1:
  
Add support for Haiku system colors.
    

      
That means full support for dark mode!
    
  
  
Switch from custom translation library to Haiku LocaleKit.
  
Allow switching between system DNS and proxy DNS when using a proxy.
  
Minor fix of the window size of the ColorPicker.

What's new in version 1.6.0:
  
New maintainer again, added me to the credits.
  
Switch default server to PhoenixIM / iwarg.ddns.net, AOL AIM is dead.
  
Change license to GNU GPL 3.0, previously no license was specified.
  
Add Spanish translation (thanks cocobean).
  
Fix compiler error related to wrong function return types
  
Fix tons of compiler warnings that appear with GCC 13.
  
Fix application crash when opening the Setup window.
  
Fix connection not working at all.
  
Fix proxy port setting always resetting to default 80 or 1080 (only do that when switching between HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy if no custom port is set)
  
Fix SOCKS5 proxy support, improve error handling for HTTPS proxy.
  
Drop compatibility #ifdefs for pre-BONE BeOS - Everyone should be using Haiku nowadays.

Check out the latest release here.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!