Dylan's AOL shirt

Wasn't that Dylan's favourite shirt? I really wanna know what it means.

I recall it being something he wore ironically to make fun of pseudo "hackers" who plagued AOL chat boards at that time period.

Of course I could be completely wrong.

It's in "leetspeak", which is shorthand that arose from gaming communities and online chatrooms.

"AoLeet D00D" means "AOL elite, dude", or that AOL is cool/ approved.

"AoL: wHeRe KewLz HaXoRz ArE" means "AOL: Where cool hackers are".

Like [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] said, it's making fun of all of the people on AOL chats who would drone on about how they could trace your IP and hack your computer and stuff like that. A lot like people a few years ago, before everyone had a basic understanding of tech and the internet.

I remember hearing someone say that Dylan went off on a few people on AOL chats, and he eventually got banned.

properground wrote:

I remember hearing someone say that Dylan went off on a few people on AOL chats, and he eventually got banned.

IIRC, Dylan was banned from AOL for using software that tricked people into giving out their passwords.

Not a fan of the AOL shirt. He probably had to explain what it means constantly which is just embarrassing. He was very attached to it for some reason.

Yeah, Robyn tells that story in the 11 K I think. I only recall one of his AOL names. He filled out a profile and stuff .

I liked the shirt. Why does he have to explain a shirt? He can wear what he wants. There’s a lot of things that people wear out in the world that I don’t like. Doesn’t mean I’m going to ask them to explain themselves.

Screamingophelia wrote:

Yeah, Robyn tells that story in the 11 K I think. I only recall one of his AOL names. He filled out a profile and stuff .

Anyone know what names he used besides Wurmhole?

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Why does he have to explain a shirt? He can wear what he wants. There’s a lot of things that people wear out in the world that I don’t like. Doesn’t mean I’m going to ask them to explain themselves.

"Hey, what does your shirt mean?"
"Oh well on AOL there's this language called leetspeak and something something hackers something something"

It's awkward and embarrassing.

*points at shirt* No, no, no.

I disagree, I don't think it is awkward and embarrassing. Dylan also didn't have to answer any questions about his shirt if anyone really cared. He didn't owe anyone an explanation regarding his shirt.

Do you think teenagers cared what his shirt looked like? Probably not. They are more concerned with their own crap.

Puh-leaze. It would've been even MORE awkward if Dylan had refused to explain it.

On the day of the shooting I'm pretty sure JCSO and the fashion police were competing with eachother to see who could arrest Dylan first.

Out of interest Ophelia, do you have a crush on him? O_O

Yeah I gotta say, the shirt is pretty cringe, even for the 90s

Dylan was hawt

















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Shirts like that were just fad type shirts from the 90s. I recall this one too. *eyeroll*
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I'd bet my life on the fact that Dylan used to twiddle with AOHell to disturb other people's activities in AOL chatrooms.

Amarantha wrote:

I'd bet my life on the fact that Dylan used to twiddle with AOHell to disturb other people's activities in AOL chatrooms.

Judging by the description on Wikipedia, that's exactly what he used:

The program would barrage random AOL users with instant messages like, "Hi, this is AOL Customer Service. We're running a security check and need to verify your account. Please enter your username and password to continue." (The program also had) a fake account generator which would generate a new, fully functional AOL account for the user that lasted for about a month.