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by travmatt 2339 days ago
Before we had cellphones, we used to use the windows terminal “net send” command to send each other messages in classes we had computers.
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You can build pretty good "spam viruses" with that commans and a simple shell script forcing someone to confirm thousands of messages or reboot the computer
It’s a good thing I never realized that, although at the time I was fascinated with self-modifying code. I did figure out that our home economics budgeting game stored it’s data as base64 encoded json - it was pretty funny watching my teacher trying to understand how I suddenly became a millionaire.
haha very nice - but some devs out there still believe today that base64 is encrypted - think I've seen entire websites around it warning.that it is not...think teachers should be trained to find people like you and me and realize how much of worth is behind those early hacking skills
we chatted handing the graphical calculator back and forth