[predakanga]

Similar story here - mine was in the days of Windows 9x; everyone knew about "net send", but few bothered to look into the other options.

I decided to poke at it and see what "/forest" did, ended up messaging the entire network with a harmless "Hello world".

It's shocking to see the ordeal that mmccaff went through; for me it was just a couple of very confused teachers and an IT department that wanted to keep an eye on the troublemaker.

[13of40]

Sometime in the mid 90s (must have been 1997 since there were web browsers) I was taking a college prep class at a community college, and I read about a thing that became popularly known as "the ping of death". Long story short, the school had all of its internet traffic running through a single, rather ancient NAT that locked up if you pinged it with a 64k icmp packet...

[merb]

shutdown /i ... :)