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by 13of40 3333 days ago
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...