Expulsion seems incredibly harsh for how “new” a lot of the concepts were, and no real parental ability to teach kids any form of discipline with the technology

Expulsion seems incredibly harsh for how “new” a lot of the concepts were, and no real parental ability to teach kids any form of discipline with the technology. I received in school suspension for hacking, and I feel like that taught me just the right amount of discipline. I had basically written a boot disk that created c:\autoexec.bat that executed coldboot.com, which was a dos program that immediately rebooted the computer. I then booted all the computer lab machines off that disk. Three days stuck in a boring quiet room with students I had never been around before. Very enlightening. This was back when we used to see who carried the coolest looking floppies around. Mine was unlabeled black with a black plastic dust cover. My buddy was a rebel and always took the dust covers off his blood red disks.