when i was at school maybe age 6 there was a computer running win95 in the corridor between classrooms. every time me or my friend were excused from class to go to the toilet we'd play around on it for a few minutes. i think at one point one of us opened a browser or software with a message "your computer is not connected to The Internet"
our parents were called in. this was a serious incident - a potential crime. we "had been Hacking the computer and had managed to connect it to The Internet"
@envgen i bet the teachers did. i didn't because i was a smart big brain boy
@jk @envgen back when I was a kid i had a spectrum 128K +2 and I had a cover tape off a magazine that had a game called Butch Hard Guy and if you died in that game it brought up a screen saying that it would self destruct if the timer got to zero and you didn't press any button to continue.
I genuinely got anxiety that it would break my Spectrum if I didn't so any time I wanted to stop playing after I died, I'd press to continue then hit the reset button.
@jk @envgen I love that computers have various things like this, like "lp0 on fire", HCF, Pentium F00F, Cyrix Coma, "Not a Typewriter" and other weird errors and terminology, but I also hate that NONE of them go the distance and physically destroy the hardware.
but also I love that there isn't something that can physically and irrevocably destroy the hardware. ^^;
Like a lot of the Killer Pokes either knocked drive heads out of alignment (eventually), or MIGHT cause damage. no guarantees.
@Nine @jk computers are a terror