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Mid 90s were fun at Uni. Replacing a T-connector with a broken one to sabotage unpopular classes... Or binary searching it with a terminator to save one you li

Mid 90s were fun at Uni. Replacing a T-connector with a broken one to sabotage unpopular classes... Or binary searching it with a terminator to save one you liked... Learning that pinging Windows 3.1 with a big payload would BSOD it and writing a script to perform a rolling BSOD of the entire lab while sitting in the back... Sending random insults to random spots on ttys while people read their mail using Elm... Writing a trojan to steal and then delete the MUD accounts of the dudes hogging the only 2 computers with Internet access available to undergrads... And being caught and let go with a not so stern warning. Simpler times.

phkahler 3y ago
>> Sending random insults to random spots on ttys while people read their mail using Elm... Receiving such a write and tracking down the offender for a face to face "you got a problem man!?!?" ;-)
- fcatalan 3y ago
  I still treasure friendships forged that way :)
Twirrim 3y ago
> Replacing a T-connector with a broken one to sabotage unpopular classes When I started working in academia they had mostly phased out 10BASE2. Every now and then we'd get reports of network being broken and would have to get out the break detector to track down where. Inevitably we'd find a student had unplugged a T-connector in a classroom, disrupting the others on the same loop.