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 Eventually I got the courage up to let the timer run down entirely and all it did was crash back to the main menu as if it had quit properly. I felt very foolish.

Sign in to participate in the conversation
Computer Fairies

Computer Fairies is a Mastodon instance that aims to be as queer, friendly and furry as possible. We welcome all kinds of computer fairies!