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I remember some kids in HS were distributing floppies of women with bathing suits and some "optimized" viewing program. On the computer lab computers, 8086's,
by rograndom 5y ago
I remember some kids in HS were distributing floppies of women with bathing suits and some "optimized" viewing program.
On the computer lab computers, 8086's, it would take several seconds if not minutes to render on the screen, one line at a time. That gave everyone plenty of time to escape out in case a teacher or someone else walked by. And there was only sky and trees and stuff mostly on the screen at that point.
Later on, a year or so later, the typing teacher got a 6 new computers, 386s. The first kid to try them out to look at the bathing suit pictures found that the images rendered instantly and completely. He was so stunned by seeing the entire image way sooner than he expected, but also, I guess, seeing the entire image itself. He let out a "Oh shit!" which caused the teacher to turn around and see the contraband on the screen.
Student had his disk confiscated and was banned from using the school's computers for the rest of the year.
Times were simpler then.
- colanderman 5y agoI'm reminded of the classic Comic Book Guy scene from the Simpsons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKBRWoGvL0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSKBRWoGvL0
- GekkePrutser 5y agoHaha! I remember when I first got access to X-Windows terminals and how easy it was to start an image viewer on someone else's display because xauth was not yet a thing. This was a lot of fun :) There was also xblaster or xblast or something that would turn the victim's mouse pointer into a crosshair and when clicked would shoot holes into their windows which would not disappear. You could actually see the windows underneath them. They implemented xauth pretty quickly though and that was the end of that. Thanks "MIT Magic Cookie". Never found out why it was called that.