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by Tagbert
2299 days ago
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Back in the 80s when most people were using DOS text screens, we would sometime play a joke on a friend/coworker. We would get on their computer and run a small terminate-and-stay-resident (background process) program called rain.com. It would sit in the background while they ran their word processor or spreadsheet. After some time, it would cause one character to “fall” down the screen. They would see it happen and not know what was going on. Then it would make another charter fall. By then, the person would usually call out to someone else to come and look at this weird thing. But then the program would up the rate and start dropping multiple charters. It kept increasing the rate and eventually all of the characters on their screen had rained down and were in a pile on the bottom of the screen. At that point, we would press some key combination and their original screen would appear. That is usually when we would let them in on the joke and reboot their machine to remove the TSR Rain. People didn’t lock their computers back then. :) |
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