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by hex4def6 1275 days ago
This brings back memories.

My favorite discovery was that the "scheduled tasks" folder was shared on every computer in our school. This meant you could do the net send * bomb from a friend / enemies computer, and get them in trouble.

The other fun one was Borland C++ 6 had a limit on how wide the code window could be -- you could only horizontally scroll so far. However, you could hold down tab for a few seconds, then write something like cout<<"logout next time"; in their code. Unless you knew the trick, you'd never find the code afterwards -- you couldn't scroll to the right far enough due to the limitation of the viewing window.