Very loosely related
At school – ‘higher’ school, GCSEs and A-levels, my local had achieved ‘technology college’ status. This basically meant they got a fucking massive stack of money from the government every year, to spend on whatever they wanted, technology-wise. This resulted in a very nice CADCAM studio, and in hundreds of (back in the day when they were new tech) LCD workstations. You could smell the headmaster wanting to show off his new, cash-rich pockets. Never mind the fact that this was still a school populated almost exclusively by little bastards who would think nothing of battering the TFTs until the screen cracked. Nevertheless, we had, I would estimate, one of these new workstations for every 3 students in the school. They were fucking everywhere.

There was a kid a year above me who was uber-geek. He got a hard time from a lot of kids, especially the bastards in his year. He was a bit of a misfit. He was also pretty nifty with a mouse.

He got access to the network (by exploiting a bug in MS Word, which everyone eventually learnt how to do in order to play Solitaire and Pinball) and installed a copy of Quake II. Result? Hundreds of brand spanking new workstations, being used across the school network to play massive LAN games. Just amazing.

Length? Lasted about 6 months before they clocked. But Worms stayed for a while longer…
( Rookie You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel, Mon 28 Sep 2009, 11:46, Reply)