remember yahoo chat? Funny I had not thought about yahoo chat in several years now until tonight talking with someone I have known for along time. And of course he brought up the old yahoo booter site I used to run back in the day.. well ok I ran it for years until Sept 2010 when I closed it. Of course now yahoo chat is dead officially (course it was dead some years ago before yahoo actually pulled the plug)
Yep I was one of them evil people that made the booter programs that would kick people out of chat. had a website full of yahoo programs, plus many many other things.
Thinking back to 98'ish when I 1st put the site up I never thought it would have gotten as big as it did nor did I ever thought id see the day yahoo would pretty much die. I also didn't think it would have made me quite a bit of money. (seriously at one point it was making me about 5k per month in ads) When I pulled the plug it had about 2 million registered members something like 600,000 downloads and who knows how many forum posts. Thinking about it now it feels like it was decades ago. I will have to see if I can find the CD stack that contained the last backup files. I do remember the site being something like 30 or 40GB in file size and the mysql db backup file was insanely massive.
funny how life changes over the years, and how you forget stuff and then someone will say something that sparks a memory and you remember it all. for about 5 years now I hadn't thought much about it, something that was part of my life for a bit over a decade, strange how our memories work eh? I remember many lulz I had with some of the members also remember in a rush server moves that would cause me to be up 48 hours strait. I guess in all I should have saved all that money instead of just giving pretty much all of it away. hindsight really is 20/20.
Yep I was one of them evil people that made the booter programs that would kick people out of chat. had a website full of yahoo programs, plus many many other things.
Thinking back to 98'ish when I 1st put the site up I never thought it would have gotten as big as it did nor did I ever thought id see the day yahoo would pretty much die. I also didn't think it would have made me quite a bit of money. (seriously at one point it was making me about 5k per month in ads) When I pulled the plug it had about 2 million registered members something like 600,000 downloads and who knows how many forum posts. Thinking about it now it feels like it was decades ago. I will have to see if I can find the CD stack that contained the last backup files. I do remember the site being something like 30 or 40GB in file size and the mysql db backup file was insanely massive.
funny how life changes over the years, and how you forget stuff and then someone will say something that sparks a memory and you remember it all. for about 5 years now I hadn't thought much about it, something that was part of my life for a bit over a decade, strange how our memories work eh? I remember many lulz I had with some of the members also remember in a rush server moves that would cause me to be up 48 hours strait. I guess in all I should have saved all that money instead of just giving pretty much all of it away. hindsight really is 20/20.
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