Because I was maintaining some IRC bots, I knew the IRC protocol quite well back in the days. I remember when I was about 12 years old... The school computers

Because I was maintaining some IRC bots, I knew the IRC protocol quite well back in the days. I remember when I was about 12 years old... The school computers were quite limited in terms of software and it was just not viable to download or install mIRC during a class. So I fired up the telnet application to connect to the IRC network everyone at school used. The computer lab prof. was not impressed... Next class she told me that if something happened to the machines, she knew who did it... lol * granted, we used a lot of colors / decoration (ctrl + K on mIRC) and while I was able to demonstrate my abilities it was not much practical as it was just too damn hard to read the messages quick enough.