Old and techy meant for not a great amount of fun at school.
My school was rather behind the time with computers. No one touched a computer until Year 10. No one had mobiles either. As computers were my life, and the only thing I was good at. You can imagine that school was somewhat boring:

However, I did enjoy a few technical exploits at school:

1. The remote control watch. Oh how I had great fun messing with the TVs when we were watching boring educational videos in geography. "Ooh the TV has turned itself off!". Teachers were very confused!
2. Typing speed test in Office Studies. I broke into the program and made it add 100 words per minute to my score. Teacher believed it and recorded that I could type at 190 words per minute. (I am a fast typer anyway lol)
3. Found the timer with the bell system, started messing about with it.. put it back 10 minutes and the whole school ended up leaving late :)

Now college however, I hit my element when we got our new Windows 95 network:

1. Internet access was restricted to just certian PCs. Didnt take me long to install a proxy to one of these PCs and set myself up so I had the web everywhere.

2. Hacked into a teachers account and got a spreadsheet detailing all the student IDs, what course they were on etc. For some reason, emails were sent as your student ID, not your name. So people were mass mailing all over the place thinking they were anonymous.. well not to me they weren't :)

3. Deltreeing windows on many computers and leaving a text file in C: saying it was a virus.. The IT techs thought they had a virus. (not proud of this one, as it was a bit of a dickheadish thing to do)

4. Installing Back Orifice server on every PC and taking control of the entire network. Logging onto peoples disks, opening their word documents, making some changes.. saving it back.. all from the other side of the college. I could write another post on the stuff we got up to with the Back Orifice Server trojan :)

5. Sending fake emails from the tutors to students. Just reconfigured Outlook Express and changed the from name and email, and their dumb SMTP took it.

6. Abusing the internet connection, downloading games and putting on zip drive (this was 1998 folks!)

Plus loads more!
Was great fun :)
(Miggyman, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 10:40, 2 replies)

Hittng college in '98,
I'd say an absence of mobiles at your school was less a sign of being "behind the times" and more a sign of it being the mid-90's, when mobiles had yet to reach the mass-market.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Fri 9 Sep 2011, 11:31, closed)

Agreed
No-one was expected to have a mobile until about 2001, by my reckoning.

I'm going for mass bullshit here.

Shame you didn't make it very exciting bullshit...
( ousgg is not seeking approval, Sat 10 Sep 2011, 23:45, closed)