Once upon a time we were pranking each other in the university lab. We thought ourselves pretty clever by convincing a friend to run a Fork Bomb. "What is it s

Once upon a time we were pranking each other in the university lab. We thought ourselves pretty clever by convincing a friend to run a Fork Bomb. "What is it supposed to do? Nothing's happening." "Really? Did you run it in a shell?" "Yeah, in my SSH session in the main server." Oh. The server was down for a couple of days while the admin figured out what happened, fixed it, and limited the number of open processes per user.