>>100327750
>watching random shit that's on my pc
>pc bluescreens while some coke ad or something's playing
>plays through the bluescreen

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>>100327750
lol. nufag

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>going through the windows folder and every subfolder
>doubleclicking everything that has an icon
to this day I still don't know what dr. watson is or does

also
>want to install game
>low on disk space
>*bright idea*
>go through the windows folder and delete every file that has the default icon (if it has no icon then why would we need it?)
>restart computer
>windows doesn't boot :(
>parents angry I broke the computer again, and they have to call the technician yet again

do kids experiment with computers anymore?

>>100327953
lol at the second story, many such cases of bright ideas leading to disaster

>>100327973
yeah, I fucked up the computer so many times I had to learn how to reinstall windows 95 and memorized the cd-keys too

someone in my household deleted himem.sys and they fucking blamed me for it. I already knew back then you're not supposed to do it but everyone fucking blamed me anyway and believed I did it. 30 years later I still seethe

>>100328020
>30 years later and still not admitting it was his fault
just fess up

>>100327750
i'd defrag the hard drive just to watch the blues and cyans vs the reds and yellows.
still have no fucking clue what it did. I know what it's supposed to do, but i never saw any read speeds increase so it's probably just a time wasting activity like masturbating.

>>100327953
>deleted things you don't understand
I was a retarded child, but I'm glad I wasn't this level of retarded.

>>100327953
>>going through the windows folder and every subfolder
>>doubleclicking everything that has an icon
>to this day I still don't know what dr. watson is or does
I also did this
Who was this Watson?

I was not dumb enough to delete system files though

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>be 10
>messing around with some program
>get a popup window similar to pic
>"Mom what does abortion mean?"
>get the talk
t-thanks mom

>>100328031
>hides that in a shortcut for a game
>brother invites friend over
>'share' computer with 'friend'
nothing personal mister military intel guy

>>100327750
All I remember about windows 98 is stuff like this: things breaking and I had no idea why.

>computer freezes
>REEEEEEE
>hit the restart button 5 times repeatedly
>heh that will show the computer not to freeze anymore >:)

>>100328055
There was so much weird/spooky stuff in there, that was great.
There's no magic in new OSes where you can pull back the curtain and the weird OOP/COM/resource crap self assembles in broken ways.

>>100327750
I accidentally found a bug to bypass the screentime limits in windows7 when i was like 12, sometimes crashing the entire management program allowing unrestricted access to restricted sites/applications

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>>100327750
Damn, another 2012 pass holder. How rare.

>>100327864
this stirred something in the recesses of my brain

>>100328852
sir, your cum glass on the rocks

>change colors to make all the interface text blue and yellow
>watch screensavers, like the one with a bunch of pipes or the maze
>get impatient and shove cd slot in by force instead of waiting for it to go in automatically and accidentally scratch the cd so the game i wanted to play didn't work anymore

>>100328861
norton commander.
i bet we all used it bc it was easier to handle than dos was at the time.
+ i got the vague memory that you couldnt launch games from windows 3.x

pifmgr.dll icons
is the dll still around in modern windows?

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> be 13 at computer class in early 2000's
> school computer have pre-service pack 2 Window XP installed
> be free to do whatever we want to
> use "net send" command to annoy classmates with random messages, ranging from "CAUTION: Virus detected!" to "You are being hacked, HAHAHA!"

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>>100327750
>>drawing a tornado hitting a barn in mspaint
>>illegal operation occurs
>green text is not green
HOW THE FUCK??

>>100328852
well met, sir.

>>100329253
you could play windows games in windows but all the cool games were back in dos
for me, it was carmen san diego and joust

>this broke
better fix it
>this broke
better fix it with more storage
>this broke
better fix it with more of everything
gmud was the piniccale of online gaming

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>>100327750
>be 4 years old
>have brother that is 9
>he plays game on computer
>"anon, do you wanna try?"
>ecstatic to play game
>"just press this button"
>PC freezes and starts making wonky noises
>brother calls dad
>"anon broke the computer"
>dad ends up having to format the disk and reinstall windows 3.1, takes him several hours
>dad is furious
>mfw I pressed one key and broke dad's computer
Years later realize that brother fucked something up, successfully blamed me for it. I still vividly remember this a quarter of a century later.

>>100329912
Forgot about Carmen Sandiego, my friends and I would crowd around the computer and play that for hours. Educational games today seem nonexistent, but maybe I'm just out of the loop.

>>100330076
growing up with home pc environment
>something one of the kids did wrong
>something one of the kids fixed
>spend hours fixing it
this seems pretty common early on

>>100329912
noice.
i played lemmings on the school pcs
some had doom ad duke nukem/2/3d installed on em^^
at home i "inherited" a pc from my uncle. (he bought a pentium 1 so i got his old 386 dx)
he installed dope flight simulators on em. good times.

>>100330076
my brother put a 3.5" floppy into the 5.25" floppy drive and when it was coming out the slidey metal bit got stuck in the drive. After that when you turned the computer on it would complain there was an invalid boot disk. As a child I didn't know how to fix it or what that meant so I spent days trying to get that little clip out of the drive with tweezers.
Finally got it out

>>100330132
old dos mathblasters is still going strong for parents, I'm not sure it's a thing in school anymore

>>100330155
I managed to insert one the wrong way when I was 5 and was handed a screw driver to fix it

load '$',8,1

>>100330205
7,12,2

>ran fdisk in my personal pc
>fdisk locked up
>computer froze when ever that drive was plugged in
>had to buy a new drive
Fuck

>>100327953
Same, I needed more space for a game so I started going through random folders and finding random files that were big. Everything was fine until it needed to reboot. I just wish I was smart enough at the time to reinstall windows instead of costing my parents money to call in a tech.

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>>100327750
'puter freezes for no reason

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>Playing Myst when 6
>error comes up
>run away from computer because I think it will explode.

>>100330255
fdisk doesn't wipe
did you try a boot drive?

>>100330282
i miss myst

Oh yeah computer lab day in elementary school. There was this (mac?) game I vaguely remember that I've never been able to find: you're trying to fence in zoo animals, with limited amounts of fencing I think.

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>>100330285
Whenever this hard drive was plugged in, the computer locked up at the bios and refused to boot.
Wouldn't even boot off of floppy

>>100330282
hold shift+TAB

>>100330319
sorrry

>>100327750
i was around 12 or 13 when we got our first family computer
office came with publisher and i spent a few weeks making websites with it before i went to the physical brick and mortar library to rent a real tangible book about html and javascript
i remember saving my web pages to 3.5" floppy and it would take a few minutes to save the file
i often would go next door to the kitchen and grab a cup of rice crispies while it was saving. i liked to eat rice crispies from the mug so i could pretend to be like a grown up buisinessman drinking coffee.
anyway one day my mum printing something shouts on me because it just spits out paper as soon as you turn it on.
well i was a bit of a tinkerer so i lifted the cover and wouldn't you know the little lever that pops up when the paper feeds though had a rice crispy jammed under it so i guess it was trying to clear out paper it thought was half printed
i asked for a usb stick for my birthday it was in the ~<100MB range iirc, green diskgo. still have it somewhere i expect.

>>100330282
>>run away from computer because I think it will explode.
kek, being a child was great

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>>100327750

>brother puts on a countdown clock on win3.11 and tells me it's a bomb
>start crying

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>>100332007
fucking brothers man

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Sometimes it just didn't work

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>>100327750

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>>100327750

>>100330565
The only thing I miss about childhood was the optimism. Everything else really sucked.

>>100330282
>Playing Myst
jesus christ fuck this game. it was like GAME OF THE YEAR, articles in magazines about how great it is, how groundbreaking
we had a PC and I begged my parents for Myst
and it's fucking trash
most frustrating piece of shit ever. literally guessing game. never beat it

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> booking computer time at school

>>100327750
I thought the monitor was on fire when the colors inverted unexpectedly

>>100328044
I tried to defrag files manually by going to each folder and sorting files by name

>>100327953
dr watson is a debugger.

>Grandfather bought me a Raspberry pi for christmas
>Need to reformat for the first time ever
>Don't have usb
>Try using a tutorial to write the ISO to a partition
>"Error: Disk is not empty"
>What the heck, why does the disk need to be empty?
>Unironically

rm -rf /

>Chaos ensues

Keep in mind I was like 10 lmao

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>>100327750
>elementary school
>teacher let me and another student play games on the Apple II
>Oregon Trail
>some txt based game where you had to escape from a building
I can't remember the name of the "interactive fiction" game. But I remember on of the obstacles to get by was a dog. And IIRC, you defeated the dog by having a piranha eat it. Ah the good old days.

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>>100327953
>do kids experiment with computers anymore?
They don't even know what a folder is lmao we're so fucked

>Minding my own business and installing OpenBSD on my router
>Mama starts yelling from downstairs
>"What is it mama?"
>"SERGIO! EL COMPUTER NO WORKO! NO GUSTA!"
>Go downstairs, find that there is taco sauce on the monitor, tostadas on the keyboard, tortillas in the optical drive, salsa in the heatsink, guacamole on the southbridge, burritos in the case fan, beans cooking on the fermi, and tacos in the PSU.
>Fuck it, I'll buy her a Mac
>Go to Apple store
>Considering purchasing an iMac
>Steve Jobs is there
>Talks to me about the iMac
>I get really hyped for the iMac
>Decide to buy it on the spot
>Reach for my wallet
>Suddenly, spaghetti spills out of my pocket
>There's spaghetti on the floor
>Everybody walk the dinosaur
>Try to clean it all up
>I look down
>There's fur in the spaghetti, leading to the realization that I am a bear

>>100330311
Prob Zoo Tycoon. I had the much cooler Dino Park Tycoon on our iMac G3 in elementary school.

>>100332867
Skill issue

>>100333274
>raspberry pi
>I was like 10
MODS

I played the Lost Vikings on PC when I was like 10 and the computer froze and I thought I had fried it for good because I couldn't exit the lost vikings and I cried to my mom.

She force-rebooted it with the power button and it was all back to normal.

>>100330210
>please insert windows 95 setup disk #24

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>>100336020
>raspberry pi came out 12 years ago

>>100330255
>beeep

>>100332867
Probably too young to figure your way around it. Recently played the remaster and it holds up pretty well. Some puzzles are a bit obnoxious, but none of it is guessing. Especially for the time, when a lot of point and click games were complete moon-logic bullshit that’d brick your save and you’d only figure it out 2 hours later.

>>100336215
i really liked point and click adventures, but never managed to get more than a handful of screens into any of them because they were just too convoluted for my autistic ass
while i also don't like games that just tell you where to go, it's no fun to just be stuck in the same spot for days and just being forced to give up, it's not like i had an internet connection to just look up the answer, either

>got really good at installing stuff from CDs
>super proud of it, keep installing random software CDs laying around and showing it to my Mom
>Find Leisure Suit Larry in Dad's bedroom
>Install it and play with it for a bit
>didn't understand wtf was going on in the game, went to show it off to my mom anyways
>Get the talk

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>>100332905
fucking kek

>>100336298
how'd you get past the age check?

>>100336298
>browse the CD of a game installer
>find a hidden demo of another game
pure joy

>>100336351
I'm Asian, they're all pirated. I was really proud of the fact that I can copy paste the crack executables and run the Keygens on my own.

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>>100336382
>browse the CD of a game installer
>find a hidden demo of another game
>pure joy

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>>100336382
fuck yea

>>100336400
oh, that makes more sense, both for the age check and the idea that was impressive to install software from a cd
if you aren't aware, when you open the normal lsl, it will ask you a random trivia question that only people over a certain age (at the time the game came out) is likely to know, for the purpose of preventing kids from running it

>>100336400
As opposed to what, some else running the keygen for you?

>>100336382
sometimes console games did this as well
https://youtu.be/LqWesjdciLI

>>100336508
what kind of trivia questions? politics? general knowledge? math?

daily reminder to ignore and hide all tripfaggot posts

>>100336704
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/917513-leisure-suit-larry-1-in-the-land-of-the-lounge-lizards/faqs/36594/age-questions

>>100327953
>going through the windows folder and every subfolder
>doubleclicking everything that has an icon

I used to this but I would also drag all the items to the desktop LOL

>>100327750
I recall I would get nightmares from my PC (most likely running MS-DOS at the time) freezing while gaming, because of the looping audio buffer that would occur whenever that happened. I must've found that sound scary, to have gotten nightmares from it.

>>100332362
I've always ran into issues connecting to wi-fi on an XP computer back in the day. I don't know why.

>>100336734
interesting
I would get most of these questions wrong

>surf the interwebz
>some random popup appears with a gif of two girls looking directly at me
>they make hand gestures, hold signs, and appear to be talking
>I thought it was a live video and I might've entered some chatroom by accident
>It was just some long gif

That was fucking weird

>>100327750
In middle school in the computer lab we would pull the "Intel Inside" stickers off the school computers and stick them on our flip phones. Just seemed like the right thing to do.

>>100336823
It's more likely that you associated it with something stressful such as the game crashing. Stressful triggers tend to recur more often in dreams, hence the stereotypical trauma dreams that PTSD victims get.

>>100336938
they're intended for americans who were adults in 1987
so even if you were old enough, being asian you probably wouldn't know many of them anyway, which is probably one reason why the check would be removed by pirates

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>>100327750
>Copying Lode Runner to a floppy disk to play it at my mom's place.
>Try to launch it, doesn't work.
>I only copied the shortcut, not the full game.

Also:
>downloading on a floppy a bunch of sexy image from the internet at my father's work
>try to open to them on another computer
>the color are horrible (16 bit images opened on windows 3.1 256 colors capabilities...)

>>100337094
copying shortcuts from a friends computer to a floppy disk and bringing it home to play it only to discover it doesn't work is I believe something all of us did

>>100337094
the first thing i did when i got a computer that could handle 16bit colour was view porn jpegs on it
fyi win3.1 is actually capable of high/true colour, it's just that few people had the hardware for it pre-win95

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>>100337244
>floppy icon in RCT
I was convinved that button must copy the whole game to a floppy disk
it made perfect sense to my 8 year old self

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>>100333274
>Raspberry Pi
>10
>"Get the fuck outta here underage b&"
>Realise RPI is > 10+ years old
>I am unironically old and have been on this site for longer than that
>picrel mfw

>>100333626
>>some txt based game where you had to escape from a building
Mystery House?

>>100337432
i still have my rpi 1b which i used for a few years as a media centre

>>100337244
I learned what a server was after posting a bunch of images to my favorite Animorphs forum using C:/My Documents/Scans/my real name/image00xx.jpg

I used to wait for the disk check after a BSOD restart, but one time I accidentally hit space and nothing bad happened so after that I always just skipped it. Must have saved myself hours of waiting.

Once I installed some porn program where you'd pay to play strip poker against a little dancing stripper or something like that. I thought because I never put in a credit card that it would be free, but it also did a thing where it dialed up some number. The next month my parents were billed $500. They told the company that the only one who uses the computer is a 12 year old and they dropped the bill. I denied denied denied looking at porn, said it was just poker or whatever, and my parents let it go but even then I knew that they knew.

>>100337521
Great little SBC!

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>>100330076
>have no pc home
>go to dad's workplace
>young workers install games all the time bc the boomers don't understand computers
>play doom95 all the time
>buy magazine with free cdrom
>500 games
>cdrom came with html page to register something
>write fictional account
>turn off pc
>dad turn it on to work next day, can't log onto windows 98 anymore, his account was replaced by gibberish I wrote
>need to call admin
>everyone reads about my autism fictional name and organization
My dad was so cool

>Your computer is broadcasting an ip address
>Punch the monkey and win $20
>Click the button and feed a hungry person

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>rename my games folder
>start menu shortcuts stop working
>panic thinking the computer broke

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This site is why I became a Firefox user. The site still gets new rants over 20 years later.

>>100338138
Every 5 years or so I remember, browse the gui gallery and read the rants
It's that time again

>>100338138
made by a google employee

Why was it so scary?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyItKtyVR2k

>>100337673
at least your parents now knew you weren't gay

I remember using Windows 95 when I was about 7. Back then I still used DOS for most things and didn't even comprehend that Windows was an OS rather than just another program. Anyway, I accidentally hid the color bar in MS Paint and thought I had broken it, it never occured to me to just click (or hover, I don't remember) on any of the words. Eventually my parents fixed it, but they teased me about it for years.

>>100336509
As opposed to calling a number in the US to obtain the serial number.

>>100327953
My children argue over who is hogging resources on the dedicated server. I gave them access to create their own VMs and somebody deleted the management network, then somebody deleted IPs trying to get a dedicated IP for something and created dozens of misspelled virtual switches, port groups and vkernel nic cards. So I introduced the concept of opening tickets to central administration and then it went back to just arguments of who is using more RAM then they are allowed for their Minecraft servers.
>do kids experiment with computers
Only if they know the proper password....

>>100330275
I remember doing this and deleting something big in System32, miraculously it actually kept booting afterwards so whatever the fuck I deleted was actually not needed, at least not to boot.
I did fuck it up the second time I went through system folders and deleted big files though...

>>100327864
>using Norton commander instead of DOS navigator
how fucking gay are you? ...

>>100336508
>the music video for Buddy Holly by Weezer was included in the Windows 95 install
I'd forgotten about this damn

>$ sudo do-shit
>Password:
>Password is incorrect. This incident will be reported.
Classic

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>>100339021
>So I introduced the concept of opening tickets to central administration
is that like an IT support service where a pajeet does the needful and sends them links to the docs?

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I never quite understood all the codecs and DirectX stuff, so every time I'd reinstall Windows XP for my cousins and neighbors, all kinds of stuff wouldn't work so I had to call my computing teacher for help.
I'm sure he still hates me.

>>100343069
I'm sure glad we don't live in codec hell anymore
I really do not miss that part of early home computing

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I played a lot of Escape Velocity in my teens.

>>100327750
>Regsvr32
ah, the good ole (lol lmao) days before .NET ate the world because M$ couldn't make a functional system in C++.

>>100337094
Did you play the remake of this?

>>100343304
Specifically:
https://mmr.quarkrobot.com

>>100332928
>Master
>Slave
Reeeeeeeeeeee

>>100329439
I did this and the school tried to find out who did it.

>>100327953
Christ are you me? I did the same thing and wondered the exact same thing about Dr Watson. Went around looking for "fun" icons in the hope of finding a game.

Long story short I had a floppy disk labelled "VL Bus Driver" that came with our second hand PC. I ended up wrecking the PC somehow trying to get this disk to run because I thought it was some kinda Virtual Bus Driver game. The disk was full of "boring" files with a cog on them. Many years later I learned it was a driver disk for some shit called the Vesa Local Bus.

>>100327750
Editing config.sys and autoexec.bat

Want to play Ultima 8.

Have to great a boot disk to load it up in dos. I'm honestly still not sure what it was doing.

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>be 12 or so
>when visiting my aunt I always end up playing Doom II on my cousin's computer upstairs
>computer has a "Turbo" button which overclocks the CPU and makes the game run faster
>goodtimes.jpg
>one day I notice a little switch on the PSU
>reads 115V/230V, set to 230V (this is Yurop)
>sets it to 115V because why the fuck not
>PSU insides lit up, with a mild popping sound
>gombuterr not worging anymorr DDDD:
>quietly leave the room
I'm still mad at myself.

>>100344181
Anon, blue smoke is supposed to stay INSIDE the psu

>>100343125
>codec hell
you mean most hardware DVD players or software video player not being able to play common video formats at that time?

>>100327953
>>parents angry I broke the computer again, and they have to call the technician yet again
Been there, done that. except my parents didn't get mad, but my siblings, oh boy

>>100333806
phones don't come with full system access anon. no matter where they press, they can't even change the screen resolution like we did.
>those time where you fucked up the color pallete and not everyting was 256 colors

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>be in school library
>play picrel on computer all the time
>retard classmate wants to be cool, loads up a porn website
>a younger kid sees it, rats him to the librarian
>we all get banned from using the library computer
Honestly fuck that guy.

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>>100338138
Small world, I first found toasty tech years ago thanks to his Doom wad MARSWAR (which also has an anti microsoft theme).

http://toastytech.com/doom/

>>100345365
This reminds me of a time back in high school when during IT class we would waste time online whenever the teacher wasn't looking (and there were a lot of blind spots in that room). The shitty filters that were installed blocked search terms like "sex" so that you couldn't even look up basic biology. But terms like "anal" were not blocked at all so you could watch all the porn you ever wanted if you got even a little bit creative with the search terms. Fun times. A classmate even brought a usb stick filled with games and we installed them on every computer. Not to mention that students often left their social media accounts logged in and we used to mess with them all the time, changing their picture and profile descriptions to silly and deranged shit. One girl had massive tits and a female classmate changed some of her descriptions to jokes about milk maids. It took years for her to notice.

>>100345365
ELMA was so fun to play

>>100329439
> 2002
> Went to a 80% black school
> All accounts are named "student"
> do net send NIGGER to all computers
> Random stoner who sold pot to all the black kids that didn't know how to use a mouse got punished for it

Another time, my senior year of HS:
> Flash games blocked by websense
> Notice the ip address the pages load
> Find admin panel for it
> It guy is a tech college nigger who used '420blazeit' for all his passwords
> Turn filter off
> change passwords
> Everybody is happy the filter is 'broke'
> Last week of school
> Enter computer lab
> Walk into a guy jacking off to bestiality porn alone in the computer lab
> quietly close door and walk away

>>100332887
Lmao, back during the good old CRT days I had an old monitor that would change colors to a blue, yellow and greenish hue whenever it got overheated and the instant fix was to slap it in the corners.

>>100340455
Why are you even on the technology board if your only knowledge of technology is stale memes about india?

>>100346277
good morning sir

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>>100346277
Sir, please be doing the needful in high priority!

>>100346378
>>100346524
Are you 12? This was funny a decade ago, when it wasn't run into the ground by zoomers who saw a kitboga video in the past three months. This is an adult thread.

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>>100346646
Isn't it early for you to be online? Or are you working the night shift?

Thread's over. School kids are home and returning to their designated shitposting seats.

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>Be in kindergarten.
>on Amiga 500
>want to play new game
>turn off pc, swap out the disk, put new one in like I've seen my dad and teacher do all the time
>teacher comes to me screaming I'll break it unless I let her do it
Makes me fucking seethe to this day
>be in grade school
>printer stopped working
>teacher knew I was good with computers
>printers are not a computer
>end up covered in toner for rest of class
Fuck printers
>be in school still
>teacher from another class pulls me out to look at her computer
>monitor wasn't working
>audible hum
>chassis of the crt too hot to touch
>"can you fix this?"
>fuck no
>unplug
>tell her to toss it and get a new one
Got me out of class though

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>>100327750
>press ALT+SHIFT+PRINTSCRN on school computer
>lab lesson ends, go back to classroom
>pissed off teacher comes to my classroom demanding that i "fix" the high contrast mode that i enabled

>be in computer lab at school
>open word, leave doc empty, print x50
>teacher, on the verge of crying, asks: how's it that is printing blank sheets?

I set up RDP to the PC at home so I could dial into it from the PC at school and chat on my IRC channels, browse the web without firewall, etc (I had broadband at home before most people). Got pulled into the headmaster's office for "hacking the computers" and banned from the IT lab for the rest of the school year

The next year I put a batch file on one of the lab computers that would copy itself across the network onto the other computers and run on startup, randomly shutting down the computer after a time delay

Wasn't allowed to use the computers at all the whole time I was in school

>>100349574
Should add my grandfather was big into computers and was teaching me BASIC as soon as I could read and write, RIP Johnathan, I owe you a lot pops

>>100336508
>File: out.webm
>multiple fmv going with hover
I had a PC from that era and running Real Player to decode a video that size in a window was too much for it. There is no way you could do two and run hover at the same time.

>>100349664
yes, i realise you couldn't run all of them at once on an average consumer machine when windows 95 came out, the video is just to demonstrate some stuff the 95 cd came with, you can see i'm not even using windows in the video

>>100349574
Damn, some of you really were made for tech. The second I opened Basic as a child, after my dad told me about it, I just went "what is this boring nonsense?" and just returned to playing vidya. And here I am today not much more knowledgeable than that.

>>100333806
who cares what the average luser knows. if anything it will filter the it career path as hard as command lines did.

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>>100327750
my first "PC" experience
this was the PC

>>100327750
I remember going to fabrication class in middle school, maybe in 2001 or 2002. It was like woodshop but that's the first time I saw illegal operation on an actual computer. Someone was running this rube goldberg machine game on a computer, way beck when you needed a cd-rom to keep a game running, it was ejected while the game was in play, but before class started. My oldest memory to do with computers was some math game that had ms-dos karateka gameplay when you got the questions right, but you would only get a single move. I don't think anyone ever finished that because the class was only 30 minutes.

The most memorable things about computers happened in 2003 I think. We had a computer lab with iMacs, G2 or G3. The first time was a guy named Charles dragging the harddrive (Mac equivalent to My Computer) to the trash which made the thing stop working. I remember the teacher ran Norton Ghost and all kinds of stuff for like two weeks before giving up, then the machine was stuck with the sad Mac icon on startup. Seems weird that the OS wasn't programmed to stop the user from doing that, maybe it was resolved in later versions, but I'm totally serious about that. The second time was in the same lab with the same teacher, but this was a year later. I think those computers had the Mac port of MS Word/Excel. A kid named Arron went to the bathroom in the middle of some typing exercise, we had to copy text off a printed sheet and guess what fonts/header/footer distance and some other crap. The kid sitting next to him named Ricky held the return key down until Arron returned. We had to print and compare our version to the one we were given, but when Arron used print it put the printer into this loop where it would never stop printing, even unplugging the printer power and network cable didn't clear it, I think the teacher went and got an older printer out of storage after that. I don't remember the printer model, it might have been Xerox.

>>100350607
>omeone was running this rube goldberg machine game on a computer
the incredible machine?

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>>100330132
that shit never ran on my 3rd world country second hand compaq
lion king on the other hand,
what a fucking game

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>>100351535
now way that shit would have run on the computer i played carmen san diego on

>>100351535
>>100351553
not to say lion king wasn't a fucking game tho

>>100332742
Fuck you isac you little faggot

I had a teacher that was afraid of the Reset button. He thought pressing the Reset button would re-set the whole computer, OS, system, etc.

>>100327750
What were they thinking with having a window pop out of nowhere that says "This program has performed an illegal operation"?

>>100354643
this was back before windows was completely normified, so still gave you some technical information

>>100354867
The technical information is fine, I am talking about their wording. Makes it sound much worse than it is.

>>100327750
Add

ECHO Press any key to continue...
LABEL LOL
GOTO LOL

to autoexec.bat on every (DOS) machine in school's computer lab. (Not sure if that's right syntax anymore, but you get the idea).

>>100354941
>"press any button to continue"
>presses power button

>>100354936
that's only because kids only know of "illegal" with regards to the law

i wrote an autoit script that enabled remote desktop access and shared it over msn messenger to my friends disguised as an image, then proceeded to fuck with them. sometimes just jiggle the mouse around, hit backspace randomly, change their homepage to porn. when i was ready to shut it down id open up notepad and start typing messages to them, and inevitabley give it all away most of the time when they'd start freaking out and wanting to call someone for help

>>100345703
that computer hacking career sure escalated

>have 4gb hdd which can hold like 2-3 games (with ripped music and vids) because windows takes up the rest of the space
>shit it up with game demos from magazines
>older brother disables the cd drive through bios
>get frustrated as fuck that i cant install some game i got from a friend
>rip out the cd drive in anger
>realize wtf i did and almost cry and hide in a corner behind the bed
>dad finds out
>makes my brother reenable the cd drive again

>copy game shortcuts to a floppy disk
>go to a friends house
>none of the games work

>play heroes3
>suddenly crash and "uh-oh" sound
>panic and turn off the computer scared that i have a virus
>find out years later the game plays that sound effect on crash

>play some math learning game for kids directly from cd
>pc gets hot and is louder than a washing machine on full blast
>mom in the same room cant hear the tv and tells me to turn it off

>windows runs slower with time
>gotta format c again

>>100355332
>windows runs slower with time
>gotta format c again
this one is valid
never understood the reason but reinstalling always helped

>>100327750
Man I miss those error messages, it always felt like you were in deep shit. I recall this one time where I got an error message and the audio glitched out spamming that loud DING, I was fucking terrified.

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>pc running like shit
>task manager has 30+ instances of “svchost.exe”
>battling my system by ending task on each one of them to try to make pc faster
>they keep coming back

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One of my earlier hax0r memories, my parents had a suite of “CyberPatrol” type software on my machine so I wouldn’t get into bad stuff. I used resource hacker to corrupt all the files so they would uninstall it.
Also, installed a key logger to get the master password so I could bypass it whenever I wanted
Also, learned how to disable the winsock connection it used to block logged-out internet access so that I could just browse without it intercepting the connection and data

In retrospect i think if they taught me more about healthy computer use and the downside of pornography rather than a full on moratorium and blocking of it I would probably not be as addicted to porn as I am now. Kinda like how other countries have less issues with binge drinking than the US

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In elementary school I brute forced the password and then copied all the programs I liked to a diskette. I didn't even have a Macintosh at home to take advantage of what I copied.
From what I remember the teachers were not happy.

>>100336737
>>100327953
So I wasn't the only one. I would also make shortcuts to every interesting program in System32 on desktop.

>middle school, 2008
>school gives us garbage optiplex laptops
>boot ubuntu 8.04 because lighter than XP
>become "the tech guy"
>break WEP wifi passwords
>submit my first FOSS fixes to wine to get touhou 6 working
>mine my first bitcoin (then lose it)
>overheat processor trying to render fluid simulations in blender on a Celeron
>sheepishly ask for new computer
>get yelled at for not being normal
good times

>>100329870
Spaces/tabs in front of the arrows.

>>100327750
finding windows 98/XP techno music inside the system32 folder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSDE3mX81k

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WinMX, p2p file sharing with chat rooms that was pretty popular in Europe in like the mid 00s, my main memories are chatting with random strangers halfway across the world for the first time in my life while browsing what kind of files they were storing on their hard disk

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>>100352159
stinky redddit user

>>100358264
I remember at the time being shocked by how different the Japanese and US Internets were at the time. Japan was all text and image boards and unreadable domains/webrings while the US was personal websites, AOL, and the beginning of Web2.

Also AIM was huge in the US; no one in Japan needed it because feature phones and mobile email.

>>100327953
I deleted the windows folder cause I needed space for Red Alert. I assumed that it wouldn't let me delete anything that was needed. Windows didn't boot anymore and I had to get a friends dad to fix it.

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I used Sub7 and watched a lot of German girls on their webcam while I made their screen do the Matrix code thing.

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>>100327750
>trying out random Action Replay / Game Shark codes I find on the internet
>never learn my lesson and always end up corrupting save files

>>100358741
>elementary school movie day
>class wants to watch specific movie
>teacher complaining she can't find it
>spend 12 hours downloading movie on lime wire
>scrub through it
>looks like the movie
>bring it to school
>"WOW anon, thanks, everyone, anon found a copy!"
>teacher puts it on
>asshole put hardcore porn right in the middle of it

>>100358741
do you also suffer from gambling addiction?

>>100331616
I'd be curious to interview the owner of this desktop

>>100333832
wild.

>>100338053
this game looks comfy, what is it?

>>100338095
PUNCH OUT OSAMA
WIN A FREE IPOD

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>Narcissists parent pawn my Atari 2600
>We have a Atari 800 and my controllers work in the computer
>The 800 lacks of any interesting videogames, none of two or more players

>>100361326
>parent pawn my Atari 2600
Why?

>>100361326
beet, drugs, cigarettes.
Shitty parents

>>100358789
lmao

>>100357302
My dad used something like that when I was a teenager because I spent all day on my computer.
Didn't do shit since I managed to delete it (had to pretend it worked and tell my dad it glitched out when he got to check on it lmao).
So then he just took the computer's alim cord. But I found another cord and used it when he wasn't there.
I was deep in depression and my only friends were online, what did he expect?

>>100343326
Nice, didn't know, thanks.

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>>100327750
>middle school
>computer lab
>sit down in front of shitty mac
>it's frozen
>raise hand
>teacher comes over
>tell her it's frozen
>she goes hysterical literally screaming that I broke the computer
>won't even listen to me
>sends me to the principal's office
>try to explain it was frozen when I sat down at the machine
>also won't listen to me
>literally threatens to charge me for the price of the computer if they're unable to fix it
>call parents
>dad tells them to go fuck themselves
>they immediately drop the issue
made me hate computers until I was an adult

> play Dune II: the battle for arrakis on sega mega drive
> shit there must MUST be a version for multi-player where you can play with split screen
> it MUST BE I CAN SEE IT
> finally half a year later get a chance to catch a ride buy some cartridges
> DO YOU HAVE DUNE 2 BUT FOR MULTI-PLAYER???
> no
> ???
Had to experience immense frustration and settle for something else

>>100336298
Kek

>>100338053
Shit I member this game

>>100327864
douchebag

>>100330210
>jpg

>>100332362
>>100332466
>jpg

>>100354643
The term "illegal operation" actually refers to an operation that violated the rules of the operating system, not necessarily the law. When a cpu operates in low privilege mode, it can only access certain pages (segments) of memory, so accessing others is illegal. Segfault is the same thing.

>>100346524
>>100351535
>>100357076
>>100357399
>>100358697
>jpg

>>100362903
kek
based dad

>>100363606
entire school was a bunch of females power tripping against literal children, as soon as an adult male got involved in anything they instantly pissed themelves

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>>100363347
>Dune II: the battle for arrakis on sega mega drive
I spent countless hours in it.

>>100363717
Once again thanking God for mostly male teachers.

>>100359280
Blobby Volley
https://www.myabandonware.com/game/blobby-volley-exn

>>100363717
Mine's had the exact same dynamic. Was yours also a catholic school perchance?

>>100358205
>this one simple trick

>>100357076
and that was this morning!

>>100357076
don't give up
you can win!

>>100332867
Just like today, there's a part of reviewers brains that turn off when pwetty gwaphics appear. Many games have scored GOTY accolades over the decades, but once their graphics started to fade, people realised they were mid at best: Quake, Homeworld, Far Cry - the list is endless.

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im just trying to browse the world wide web

>>100362903
I don't know why but I spent the past 10 minutes thinking about how infuriatingly retarded that female teacher was. Sorry you went through that

>>100327750
this thread made me feel old. fuck you, faggots...
;_;

>>100367024
same
recently a young colleague got super excited at the disc tray on an old PS2; he had never heard of the console before

>>100351423
Yeah, that's the one. This was a year before Windows XP came out, all those computers were running W98.

>>100365732
The good ol days

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>>100327750
op how did you do that with your text

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>>100368022
fuck wrong image

>>100368305
OP here sorry I just kind of suck at greentext and it never works reliability
>Green?
>Attempt at blue text
>>/r/>Red

>>100368475
>>>/rules/global/red

>>100327750
>taught my mom how to use limewire at the age of 9/10 or so
>didnt really know what p2p meant or anything just that if you type something in, its there and free
>learned enough about computers through osmosis that .exe was probably bad if i was downloading music or a movie since it usually ran some type of program instead of a regular file
>computer dies several times over because she kept downloading shit and didnt understand what she was doing wrong
>tried to explain but it just ended up with me crying and being verbaly unable to explain what she was doing wrong getting grounded because i installed a program that gave the computer viruses randomly
>she downloads it again and runs another fucked up .exe even though i havent been able to be on the computer for like 2 weeks
>blames me again for sneaking on the computer and doing something since it didnt do anything until a reboot a day or two later
>im still mad about it recounting the story
Shes a wonderful woman and i feel honored that shes my mom but early computer knowledge in my family was like navigating a fucking minefield blindfolded. Similarish types of stories
>at my aunts house on youtube to watch videos of cats
>"uh-uh, nope. no youtube, i dont know what that shit is so get off"
and last shortish one. more /v/ really
>stepdad would call every console/game i had by the wrong name
>playstation was nintendo, nintendo was playstation etc
>made me seethe hard for some reason
>friend now has two kids around the age when it happened to me
>do the same to them to watch them get riled up
>i get it now

>>100345710
>the instant fix was to slap it in the corners.
based percussive maintenance. Was most likely a cracked solder joint or something similar just expanding from the heat.

>>100363767
Dune 2 was the first computer game that made people want to buy a sound card. Dune 2 had amazing sound for its time. Before that computer games just beeped and shit

>>100348592
>Fuck printers
I want to know why in the year of our lord 2024, why printers are still so fucking abysmal to use. I recently got a canon TS90xx printer that took me fucking hours to get to print right over wifi and it still doesnt technically do it right. I cant just hit Right click>print on something. It has to be opened and printed through whatever program it opens with.

>>100369544
(((they))) don't really want you to have the power to print. You can use it to print materials that "should not be seen" and possibly distribute it.

>>100327750
>Pressed the degauss button(s) on a crt monitor in the middle of a nearly dead silent typing class just to see what it did
>BRRRRZZZZzz
>got in trouble for trying to sabotage school equipment
>told ill have to pay for it if it breaks and scolded for almost two about respecting the property of others

>>100369569
This is actually true. when i was in college i used to print out copies of the industrial revolution and its consequences and Luty build guides and just leave them places when i was more invested in politics. Im certain most of them got tossed in the trash and nothing really ever came of it but i FELT cool doing it. A bog standard printer can be a powerful thing desu.

>>100369842
Industrial society and its future*. im retarded.

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>old PC with windows XP got infected with some obscure vietnamese virus called "hinhem.scr"
>discovers this nice little program called combofix
>proceeds to get rid of it using this program

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>computing teacher is busy writing his thesis
>we're having a Blood LAN party in class

>>100365732
did sending error report ever did anything or was it just placebo?

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>2007-ish
>parents are against spending money on games
>get 512mb usb stick
>go to local internet cafe
>"h-h-h-hi c-can i get 1 hour of c-computer please"
>give the guy the last of my allowance (0.20 something cents)
>my master plan is to copy games to play at home
>9 year old me thinks i will be arrested if caught stealing
>put usb in pc discreetly
>windows_xp_hardware_insert.ogg at max volume
>shit pants
>copy every single games shortcut to flash drive
>laugh devilishly, go home
>"GTA_SA.exe not found." "Starcraft.exe not found." "CoD_SP not found."
>whatthefuck.png
>realize i did all that for nothing
>go back to internet cafe to play games there instead
>owner asks wtf i did because i sat in the pc furthest from his desk, left in 5 mins and came back
>asks if i copied games
>banned from local internet cafe

place has been shut down and rotting for more than a decade now, makes me sad when i walk past it

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>>100369544
They aren't. Any semi-large office will have some shit like pic related, which will print 300 pages a minute, collate/staple/punch the pages, do variable ink and formatting, have built in fast copy, etc. Give one a spin next time you're in an office; it's a printer that's actually fun to use!

CONSUMER printers are fucking terrible because there's no incentive to make them good. You aren't an office; as long as your desk printer can print a sheet of paper in 30 or so seconds (a benchmark we hit in what? the '90s?) there's no real pressure to improve, which means that the consumer printer is a commodity, which means that manufacturers have to compete on cost. This means shitty components, invasive spying, and offloading all of the cost to DRM'd ink carts so you can sell the printer at a loss.

>>100372843
This; everyone is quick to pile on printers for sucking, but I'm willing to bet a decent consumer printer at 3x the price point or more would go over about as well as a small smartphone, something people also insist they want and then as a whole don't buy.

>>100327750
lol I also thought "illegal" really meant illegal and freaked out

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>>100327750
>be late 2000s
>create a group project in the new e-learning system
>add goofy activities to the calendar
>invite everybody in the year to it
>the invite message only has a yes/no button
>guess the software was rushed out to beat the other vendors in the bidding war for who got to supply it
>people start seeing the stuff on their calendar inbetween their usual courses
>turns out it is non-trivial to leave project groups with the web-ui
>there are whispers of "that one e-learning virus"

never heard anything else about it so if somebody went to IT and complained they probably just laughed about it

>>100339021
>teach your kids to be retarded
>think it's natural to for them to be retarded
shiggy diggy

>>100339910
>>100340031
I was one of the sysadmins for my high school (student-run IT lmao) and I actually made it a point to read the sudo attempt logs just so I could give my friends shit about whatever it was they were trying to do on a public school server that needed root access.

>>100333832
haven't seen that one in years

>>100332836
I smell Accolade

>>100374631
not him but it's one of the test drive games, i've played the first one on dos and the second one on mac
https://youtu.be/qWotHwhkm9E
https://youtu.be/pFqKj5bbuFo
i was never very good at it

>>100327750
I stole someone's minecraft account by entering a very basic random username and password

>>100327953
similar experience but deleted a bunch of folders like system32 to clear space for downloading first harry potter movie.

>>100327750
Demo disks, had a whole collection of them. Loved just playing all these weird unknown games.

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Ah memories.

>>100377003
UNREGISTERED HYPERCAM 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKfS5zVfGBc

>>100377003
videos like this remind me why even in Windows 10 if my shitty SAM db is out of sync with the corp authenticator garbage that it becomes a pain in the dick to auth when I can't even set up the VPN.

>>100357076
svchost, like a lot of winshit C++ primitives were built on fundamentally broken design of windows itself. svchost is just a way for winshit to reduce some of the IPC overheads of multiprocesses and you need to find out which "service" is causing your woes, not just terminating svchost.exe. you need to read it's command line to find out.
I still hate how winshit has this garbage in 2024.

>>100372308
yes. people actually read the dumps you send which is why windows got much more stable as time went on. It still breaks, but for.... uh different non-M$ reasons. Raymond Chen rants about it in his meme blog if you care.

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>Family had two computers
>One that my parents would use and another one that me and my brother were allowed to use
>In hindsight, I suspect it was so that we wouldn't ruin their computer
>Keep download demos of many games
>Some games had a time limit of how long could could play it
>Others had a certain amount of times you could launch the application as well as gated content in game, and you had to pay to launch it again
Honestly I can only remember big fish games these days, but I remember going to many sites to get demos for games. Good luck finding them these days though, I don't even know if half of those sites still exist.

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>>100377473
Nta butwhy didn't linux have the error reporting dumps anyways? Just now in 2024 I know that KDE is getting that and its still being worked on, only being completed in the 6.1 version. Seems like that would have been a good feature to have to figure out what is breaking in your system.

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>>100377538
>linux have the error reporting dumps
Ubuntu & Co have been using apport for 15 years now.

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favorite age 11-12 game client. I'd stay up playing text based RPG all the time

>>100377719
Huh, I just figured Linux didn't have that since I saw that KDE was just now adding it.

>>100377538
different systems had different ways.
gnome-abrt is one
coredumpctl was an abstraction you can use to gather it and submit what it made
so on and so forth.

>>100378399
you can get an idea of what you're using usually by just checking the core_pattern property:
cat /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern

I made a custom one for industrial stuff ages ago that gave users the options to send core dumps to us directly as well. very helpful.

>>100378213
KDE is adding one probably because they're just reimplementing gnome-abrt is my guess.

>>100378213
DrKonqi has been a thing since even before Apport.
You probably misunderstood something.

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>want to play game
>insert cassette tape
>type weird ass shit to start loading
>ok load ready
>press play
>IIIIIIIIEEEEEEEIII IIIIIII IIIIEEEEEEIIEIEEIIE
>5 minutes later
>splash screen shows up
>IIIIIIIIEEEEIIIEIEEEIII IIIIIIIRRRRRR IIIIEEEEEEIIEIEEIIERRRR RRRREEEEEEIIIIEEEII
>REEEEEIIIIEEEEERRRRNNN EEEEEEEERRRRREEEEIIIIIIITTNNN
>10 minutes later
>"load error, please try again :)"
AAAAAAHHHHHH FUCK YOU

>>100380845
>Brb just changing the cassette in my keyboard
>Again? Change it before queuing up for a match you dick! We're never playing online with you again! Reported for griefing!
I like to imagine that there's a parallel universe where this actually happened.

>>100329439
>be in computer class
>shut down people's computers in the classroom whenever I feel like it
>have to make sure I don't laugh or I'll get caught
>computer lab teacher seemed suspicious
>send a shutdown message to my own computer and freak out about it to make it look like I'm just another victim

>kid who looks like mclovin writes a batch script to spam shutdown /a all the time so we can't shut his computer down
>I pull the plug from his computer during lab
>spergs out for the entire 40 minute remainder of the class being an autistic nerd "troubleshooting" and running "network diagnostics" on other people's computers to figure it out

>>100381229
this is how i pictured the mclovin kid from your story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJk-e0n16TU

>>100381268
that is actually surprisingly accurate except he was skinny and later on the same kid did indeed say the nword in class and we became friends

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>>100381307
>later on the same kid did indeed say the nword in class and we became friends

>>100369842
I'm thinking of doing this but with slightly less edgy stuff just to have some fun

>Visiting granddad
>Has this exe on his desktop
>One of those cool ones that overlays a gif animation onto your desktop
>It was a snowman dancing to jingle bells if I remember correctly
>Turns out inside the snowman there is actually a blonde girl
>She shakes her head to reveal herself
>Then shakes her chest to reveal her nude huge tits
Needless to say I ran that exe a lot of times while making sure nobody was watching

>>100381268
To this day, I still use "you dip" as an insult.

>>100333626
ahhh shit now I'm going to have to play Oregon trail tonight.

>>100327750
rollercoaster tycoon and "it's now safe to turn off your computer"

masturbating to softcore on dad's computer and he printed the picture i jerked it to / left it on the printer openly

>>100383087
>look son, i get it, but just not at my computer, ok?

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Did anyone else have >picrel installed on their school network?
We figured out how to send text messages to anyone in the class with one of its utilities, and used it as an ad hoc IM program.
It was especially great because in full-screen games like SC or tribes, it would pull you back into the desktop, sometimes even crashing the game.
The teacher eventually disabled it on all the machines, but to turn it back on was as easy as just turning it on.
kek, good memories

>>100327750
>illegal operation occurs
>I'm freaking out thinking I will be in trouble for drawing a violent scene
crazy to think that people genuinely getting afraid over this sort of shit is why we now have these "oopsie woopsie windows made a fucksie wucksie! (⋟﹏⋞)" style error messages

>create a fake microsoft login
>email chain people "someone has a crush on you log in to find out"
>send to friend
>he types in
>"this is the fbi we are coming to arrest you"
>legit freak out
>goto living room and pretend not to be worried

yah good times

>>100332886
hell yah

>>100332836
stunts?

>have msn chat bot program
>some arab kid at school is bothering me
>turn on bot to repeat spam the same message
>says "imma bring a knife to school and stab you"
>get concerned

>>100384313
lmao I remember back when Google docs was very very new there was a way to set up a form to just go straight into a spreadsheet; I set up a fake matchmaking service and got dirt on who had crushes on whom

>>100369544
Brother mono laser, can't go wrong, fuck everything else, especially hp

>>100369544
Always run ethernet for printers if possible. I've never used one that isn't a pain via wifi.

>>100327953
i did this same thing. i went through and deleted registry files. i also deleted everything from the desktop. no idea why, just experimenting. wanted it "clean"

>>100327953
I installed a LOIC virus twice because i was mad and wanted to "hack" this guy in a CS server. First time i thought i did it wrong, it nuked the windows install and dad was pissed. 2nd time i entered what I thought was his ip, hit NUKE, and it restarted the pc again to the same complete crash. Dad banned me from using a pc for the summer after that.
Wish i could find that original virus these days and decompile it to see what it actually did. I have a few ideas but still would be neat.

>>100328089
I remember trying to play FF7 on windows 98, and it crashed every time when it got to one part where barret would hit a wall, and sound thats suppose to play crashed it. I remember we went out and bought a separate sound card, but it didnt help the issue. Mightve worked if we had reinstall windows but we didnt really know how to back then.

bump

>>100387658
>get rxbot
>infect myself and spread to other computer with default windows NT password list
>get 150 bots
>all linked to a mirc channel
>get loads of cdkeys
>browse infected computer pictures
>spread more get to 200
>MIRC server admins find channel
>ban it

shit was fun

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>>100327750

>>100381563
I found that on a computer that my uncle gave us.

>>100391428
>>100381563

oh yah desktop stripper girl. shit was rad. there were FAR more custom desktop software back in the day.

>>100333274
i got a rpi for birthday as well as a kid. i wound up teaching myself C and unix on that thing, hooked up to an old ass crt tv.
thank god for the RF output on that thing.

>>100337521
actually major respect to the rpi foundation for still supporting the original rpis to this day

>>100344181
this is something i would have 100% done had i bothered to look behind a computer

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kazaa, man

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slime basketball, anyone?

>>100394785
I'm not very familiar with the whole Limewire, Kazaa, eMule, Napster era. In my neck of the woods (small European town) we used DC++ and similar ones (StrongDC, oDC). The transfer speeds were almost LAN tier because of how it was set up, at least on local channels. But man did it make things weird. You could find anything on them, from everyday media to scat and even cp. Not to mention the conversations.

>guy I know irl connects
>hey, do you have any movies?
>I already shared the folder
>no, um, I mean the other kinds of movies
>oh, sure. Shared. Both regular and hentai, enjoy.
I'm surprised I didn't literally die from cringe at some point looking back.

>>100395046
Back then there wasn't a concept of "cringe" aka having a womanly bitch reaction to anything and everything that you haven't been browbeaten into considering "acceptable".