I was banned from the school computer room within a few days of my first computer lesson. Also using BBC Micro / Econet. While the teacher was typing in their

I was banned from the school computer room within a few days of my first computer lesson. Also using BBC Micro / Econet. While the teacher was typing in their admin password to the Econet file server, I quickly typed a one-liner on one of the BBC Micros in the class that all of us children could see. It fetched the contents of the keyboard buffer from the file server repeatedly and displayed it on the BBC Micro screen. So we watched, fascinated, as the teacher's very secret admin password appeared one character at a time on our screen. After logging in, teacher turned round to see what the class was so excited by, and then I was banned from that room for the next 5 years. Never saw it again, couldn't take computer studies as a class. Even so, when the school held a programming competition to make a pretty demo, I won the competition with my animated story about a plant being rained on and growing to a big happy plant, complete with music and unfurling leaves. Programmed outside school of course.