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by Vaskerville 3331 days ago
In 1981, when I was 12 years old, I visited my brothers university to watch him graduate. I didn't have much to do so they showed me the computer they had installed in one of the study rooms at his fraternity. It had a phone modem - they connected me to the campus network so I could play around. At the time everything was run out of one of the campus libraries. So, finding it all rather boring, I turned on a nearby stereo and put the phone to the speaker for a minute or so. Afterwards, I could no longer use the computer so I turned it off and went to wander campus. While I was away the library (security?) visited the fraternity wanting to know who crashed their network. Nobody even suspected it was me. They were told that they might face a temporary suspension. I only found out about this part 20 years later. So, which university was it? Stanford. ;)