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I had a friend who sent me a “Y2K fix” program back in '99. Said it would patch the error so I’d be safe. When I ran it, it swapped the letters Y and K on my keyboard.
That’s hilarious
Well, I don’t thiny that’s verk funnk at all!
I don’t remember the details but my mom’s first cousin called me once to fix her computer when I was a teenager.
No matter what she typed it came out as, “I AM FUCKING GAY!”
Seems like all I had to do was type “stop”.
Bootable USB with w11
In the early 90s there was a virus going around that made the floppy drive’s loading noises play the Imperial March.
No wonder people here keep talking about how awesome 90s internet was.
No, you don’t understand.
The virus was distributed on a floppy disk with the Empire’s logo printed on the label.90s was wild
How about 512 floppy drives, 16 hard drives and 4 scanners?
I believe that specific site was called “Last Measure”. It would also open up a bunch of shock sites…
Yep. I remember you could go to *.on.nimp.org and it’d lock up the browser with alert() loops, play something loud and obnoxious, and show shock images. In middle school we’d convince people to go to something like runescapehacks.on.nimp.org in school. I specifically remember one that said “Everyone come look, I’m looking at gay porn!” on repeat.
Something like that web site happened to our secretary ages ago. The boss, standing behind her, had asked her to look something up, she innocently clicked on one “search result”, and porn ads popped up. Whenever she closed a window, more opened. All while the CEO was looking over her shoulder. I was called, and killed Netscape, and had to explain that this was not the secretaries fault. I entered the same search, and showed them both the amazingly genuine looking result, and the CEO said that this could have happened to him, too. And he was thankful to learn how to kill the browser in such a case.
I was in college during the years leading up to y2k and supported myself at the time getting IT infrastructure ready. Some friends and I decided to write a “virus” that, on bootup, checks to see if the current date is in the first week of January 2000 and if it is and a backup of the fonts is not found (so it’ll only run once) then it’ll back up your fonts and alter the originals to replace the y character with the k. This affected everything system wide.
That created more chaos than anticipated.
sounds like something I’d see on dancoot1
We used to edit the system keymapping on the school Macintoshes and duplicate a letter somewhere, and then we’d do the same to a second machine using the letter that the first could no longer type; then we’d switch the physical keycaps
kou know, to this dak i alwask wondered whk my computer alwaks did that. kou wilk rascal, kou!
I’m sorry, I don’t speak Dutch.
Kanker lekker
i assume that translates to “you pay half” :P
y2k
replace the y character with the k
I see what you did there
I’m dumb and/or stoned. Can you explain please? Shk gkpsk, slklk, sprklk, trkst bk mk crkpt?
Koure missing an a in sparklk
Mk bad tkvm
Y to k Y 2 k
swaps Y and K keys.
Im afraid to post my obnoxious virus idea as I don’t want mailboxes filled with job offers from microsoft and other big tech.
A virus that changes Windows’ sticky keys to only requiring two taps of the shift key.
I used to make a batch file that opened a command prompt that opened the batch file again and again and put it on the computers as the internet Explorer logo.
People would get so mad when they opened it as a cascade of cmd would open until the computer crashed
So something like that i think
Sounds like a weak fork bomb.
back when I was in school someone wrote a script that just openened the optical drive at random intervals and put it in the Autostart of every PC in the Comouter room
Simple, every now and again switch a key input with a neighboring key. Imagine slowly losing your confidence in your motor skills as you just can’t seem to type properly no matter how careful you are.
It would do it like once every 10-1000 minutes, you will never catch it and slowly lose your grip on reality.
That’s nasty
I swapped the N and M keys on a co-worker’s keyboard and even made a custom keyboard mapping for it as well.
Excuse me sir, they said “harmless”
Finds anything and everything that can be set to dark mode and sets it back to light mode, but not while you’re using it and not immediately.
Supposedly there was a DOS virus that would spawn a pacman that would eat your letters as you typed them.
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When you click the mouse button, the pointer position moves up to 10px in a random direction before applying the click.
