I love running into folks that remember AOL-Files:
To be honest, my Dad gets the nod for buying me a VB book that included VB5 back in 5th grade (1997). But, I’ll have to say that you (with that AOL-Files.com site) and this guy named “Oogle” inspired me with the “hacker” curiosity by about 6th grade. In this case it was all black-hat though =)
From a HacherNews post about how folks got started in programming.
Good times.
Matt Mazur 
props!
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Same here. Oogle & Rampage Toolz Lmao! Was quickly on my way to phishing and subsequently scrolling/osw wars/punting… Anything I could do.
If you were inspired by Oogle, did you hang out in pr Rampage at all? LOL, so many fond memories of that place & vb & pp :-)
Dipp, I was Tau.
Don’t remember Oogle, but it was some time ago.