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I have an even better dumb story. Right after high school I visited my friend at Berkeley, and while there I wrote down his IP address. When I got home I chang

I have an even better dumb story. Right after high school I visited my friend at Berkeley, and while there I wrote down his IP address. When I got home I changed my IP to be a different one on the same subnet and matched the gateway address. I knew what a subnet was, I knew what a router was, but I didn’t realize you can’t just reach any router you want. I figured if I did that I could get all the stuff that was restricted to the Berkeley network. Needless to say it didn’t work.

ianmcgowan 4y ago
I got a fancy HPUX refrigerator-sized server to replace a mainframe in the early 90's. Was on Netware 3.11 at the time and did not understand the concept of IP, so just made up a bunch of random IP addresses. The confusing thing was telnet did not work at all, but ftp kinda/sorta did. That was an embarrassing call with HP support, but the guy I talked to kindly gave me a 30-minute tutorial and usenet filled in the rest later (and crynwr packet drivers).