Haha "1 hour of AOL" allowance... I used to hack AOL (before AOL4Free came out) by generating fake accounts using fake credit card numbers. I even automated the whole thing with Quickeys (kinda like AutoIt! For Macs back in the day).

Freshman year of high school I was generating loads of fake accounts and giving them out to pretty girls (haha one of my slickest moves in high school). It was genius: The accounts would only last a few weeks before AOL would discover that the credit card numbers were fake. So the girls had to keep coming back to me for new ones 😁

It wasn't something you could plan either: You would be chatting away with your friends and strangers in 23-person chat rooms (a/s/l? Haha) then suddenly you'd get disconnected and your account wouldn't work anymore. So the next day at school I'd have these girls desperately looking for me like I was their crack dealer!

One morning in the cafeteria before school started a couple girls were rushing--fighting--to get to me first (I would sit waaaay in the far corner with my pack of geeks). There was a teacher standing right next to us talking with the cafeteria workers and these two girls were smart enough not discuss illicit activities right in front of teachers so they both said at pretty much he exactly same moment:

"RISKABLE! I NEED YOUR NUMBER!"

Both the teacher and the cafeteria workers were stunned and amazed, haha. After the girls left the teacher came over to me and said, "Wow! You're a popular guy!"

For reference, I ended up marrying one of those girls 😁👍