Haha, in highschool I put sheep.exes into the school labs startup folders as a prank once. A couple days later the tech teacher approached me and was like "nobody's in trouble but these things are a nightmare and if I have to reimage half the lab to get rid of them it would personally ruin my day". Somehow all the sheep were gone by the next day

[–] ssj2marx@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 months ago (3 children)

School computers back then were a wild west. I remember having Starcraft on the school shared drive and playing it in homeroom.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

I remember getting sent to the principals office for "hacking" (pinging the computer in the next room) in like 8th grade.

Back in 4th/5th I actually was hacking, modifying our user menu to add Windows 3.1 and a password (copying config from a teacher's profile). Also brute-forced at least two teachers passwords.

I'm a network architect now, so there's that.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

I remember labs full of networked Win 98 machines in middle school, with like Novell software on them for login credentials and whatnot. The computers sat there with a login screen and when students logged into it you would be presented with the Office suite and a restricted web browser and some educational packages. A lot of normal Win 98 stuff wasn't there though, like any settings menus. But there was some convoluted way where you could bring up a help text and then by navigating deep in the menu system somehow cause it to launch to a "normal" Win 98 desktop.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 5 months ago

I'd often bring a floppy with wolf3d or doom to deal with the boredom