VandalismI got a load of chalk, felt-tip markers and paint from friends one Christmas in a thinly-veiled attempt to get me involved with their plan to vandalise the toilets at the local park. My downfall: Signing my name. Tell us your stories of anti-social behaviour.
Thanks to Bamboo Steamer for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 12:10)
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Way back in the computer stone ageI'm talking sometime around 1975 here. Our school had a teleprinter connected to the local Polytechnic's computer centre, so that we could run little BASIC programs on their mainframe, and see the output chatter onto the fan-fold paper. Wow, we were pretty advanced for the time!
Of course, we had a Computer Wizard, name of Quentin. He was in the year above me, the first to have this computer access. He did the same trick, in this case "Mr Jones Is A Wanker" (where Mr Jones was the computer studies teacher) on an infinite loop.
But he was a Wizard, so he'd done two other things:
1) disabled the BREAK button, so it couldn't be stopped from the teleprinter;
2) sent the output to EVERY TELEPRINTER CONNECTED TO THE COMPUTER - which meant every school, every office and every lab, right across the whole town, and probably further.
The guy was a legend!
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