[rogual]

I'll add to the chorus of people fondly remembering net send from their school days.

I seem to remember there was an option you could pass to override the sender's name so you could anonymize yourself and have the messages come from JESUS or MY BUM or something equally hilarious. You could even set it to the genuine ID of a nearby computer and watch the chaos unfold once the IT guy came running in.

I like to imagine there was some twinkly-eyed old trickster at Microsoft who saw to it that net send came enabled by default.

There was also a program that let you enable any disabled button in Windows by clicking on it. Turns out a lot of the security was only implemented at the GUI toolkit level.

There was something magical about those insecure school networks. It was amazing to watch how it affected the teachers, when you pulled some minor prank. They would flip out, not because you did anything particularly dangerous, but I guess just at the loss of control.

Good times.