Wrote a TSR to beep the speaker gradually longer every time a key is pressed. The programming teacher assumed excessive beeping meant you were playing some sort of game. I’d run it on the PC I was using before class was over to get the next kid to sit there in trouble.
Notepad could read/write everything so I used it to temporarily disable the dumb software that locked things down to a typing game, a “bible study” game, and Notepad. When they found out I wouldn’t admit to anything and they had no idea how I did it. I could literally type faster than the computer could keep up with in the typing game so I could sit back while it caught up to me and still get a perfect score, which really sealed the deal for me that they were wasting my time in “typing class” and it wasn’t worthwhile to punish me for whatever it was I did that let me take over any school computer I wanted without apparently changing anything about it that they could figure out.
Apparently changed my grades. I really don’t remember this but my Mom reminded me the other day. Luckily this was the 90s and nothing came of it.
Early 00s we had a new program called accelerated math where you would do all kinds of practice pages then tests all on scan trons… The password for changing the test grades was our school mascot, “rams”. Didn’t change a lot but came in hand a few times.
Love it. No one would have ever guessed that
I replaced one of the DLLs (winmm.dll?) with a DLL of my own. It got loaded before the login dialog and installed a hook that saved your login details to a file. This was Windows for Workgroups so no access controls for files.
That way we managed to get the login info for a teacher that nobody liked, then we filled his home directory with porn. IIRC there was a quota of 5 MB and after that the admins got involved.
That’s some serious dedication and understanding. I couldn’t build a dll until after highschool
ITT: people admitting to violations of 18 USC 1030, which is a terrible law that is way too vague.
Also probably ITT: many non-Americans to whom that draconian law thankfully does not apply
Bah, if they want to come get me for pressing ctrl+alt+down and flipping the display upside down 15+ years ago they can, fuck em!
You asked me how I put the taskbar at the top of my screen…
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I edited autoexec.bat to put it in to an endless loop :P
When I was in middle school in the mid ‘90s, the school library decided to go digital. They installed a bunch of computers with what they called “a boolean search system”. For the first time, you could search for a book by topic in the library and, after a bit of a wait bc computers were pretty slow back then, you’d get a list of results.
Well, us being kids, on the very first day, somebody decided to search for “book”, which of course matched every single book in the library and therefore created enough system load to lock up those poor mid-‘90s computers to the point that they required a hardware restart. IIRC this system was on some kind of a network too and I believe it would also lock up the network such that the other computers couldn’t use the system either. I didn’t know much about such things at the time.
Anyway, word got around immediately and so every single time a class came to the library, somebody would search “book” on a computer to see what would happen and lock up the whole system for hours. This went on for weeks with the punishment for searching “book” on the “boolean search system” becoming more and more severe, and then I moved to a new state so I unfortunately do not know how this story ended.
Imagine not being able to search for book in a library. Literally 1984.
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This is the most innocent prank with the most destruction I’ve ever heard
That was one shitty database application lol. I guess the programmer hadn’t thought of using pagination.
Replaced the Windows 95 boot screen with an exact copy where a single black square was changed to red.
I didn’t, but a classmate shoved a piece of pizza in the CD drive.
That sounds kinda satisfying.
Friends found a way to get our scheduling website to leak our schedules weeks early completely client-side. Because a lot of schools use that website, the information spread and all of a sudden we had people from Kentucky in our Discord server asking us how to do it. You’re welcome, random Kentuckians.
we installed Duke Nukem 3D on all of the computer lab pc’s
While not technically a school computer. In college we all had to install a WiFi client to access the school’s WiFi. It was shit so I started digging around and found the localization files in plain txt. I then, when I had the opportunity to, booted into a friend’s computer with Linux and changed the confirm button to say “I’m a bitch”. They never asked me to change it, which I would’ve, so it just stayed like that all year.
Not in school.
But i have written a .bat scipt in notepad on an unlocked laptop in a store
Then added the script into the startup folder.
The script would restart the pc after 30 seconds.
shutdown -r -t 30
(R for restart, t for time, 30 means 30 seconds) its harmless… but also super frustrating
Write it in a notepad file. Save it as a .bat file
Used netsend to send dank memes to every connected PC in the school.
