AOHell was a tool that greatly simplified 'cracking' online using AOL.
Most notably, the program included a function for stealing the passwords of America Online users and (according to its creator) contains the first recorded mention of the term "phishing". AOHell provided a number of other utilities which ran on top of the America Online client software. Though most of these utilities simply manipulated the AOL interface, some were powerful enough to let almost any curious party anonymously cause havoc on AOL. The first version of the program was released in 1994 by hackers known as Da Chronic, GenghisX, The Rizzer, and The Squirrel. Upon loading, the program played a short clip from Dr. Dre's 1993 song Nuthin' but a "G" Thang.
AOHell was the first program of its kind, but it spawned a very large number of copycats, some of which rivaled AOHell itself in quality. Fate X and HaVoK were two of its most popular successors. As time went on, code to create these programs became available to the general public on various AOL add-on sites. New programs would be developed and released regularly by the community of coders that sites like this fostered. Over a period of 10 years, more than 1000 programs would be released for various versions of AOL.