Finds anything and everything that can be set to dark mode and sets it back to light mode, but not while you're using it and not immediately.
I used to make a batch file that opened a command prompt that opened the batch file again and again and put it on the computers as the internet Explorer logo.
People would get so mad when they opened it as a cascade of cmd would open until the computer crashed
So something like that i think
Sounds like a weak fork bomb.
I don’t remember the details but my mom’s first cousin called me once to fix her computer when I was a teenager.
No matter what she typed it came out as, “I AM FUCKING GAY!”
Seems like all I had to do was type “stop”.
When I was in high school I made a .bat file that autoran when you put it in a device. All it would do is open the disc drive every 90 seconds however it did convince one teacher that she had a virus which caused giggles all around.
Whenever someone forgot to log out the terminal at university, we "fixed" their ".login" file by adding a command that listed all files, followed by a " ... deleted", and logging the user out again. One could easily see that the deletion was just fake, because the next time one logged in, all those files were listed again...
That reminds me of how anyone could feel like a 1337 hacker if they run the tree command lol
In my highschool programming class we made a TSR (in Borland pascal) that would change every 15th keypress to an "e". It wasn't self propagating, so it wasn't a virus per day, but it was highly annoying. It survived on memory after the netware logoff, and you could only get rid of it by rebooting.
We also had these everex brand 286 or 386 computers.... They had a little LCD screen that would read out what sector/track was being read on the disk. We found the memory address (80h) where we could write arbitrary text to the LCD. That was fun.
Supposedly there was a DOS virus that would spawn a pacman that would eat your letters as you typed them.
I call bullshit. In the 90s you had to turn a phisical wheel to increase the volume of the computer.
"sleep 1 >> etc/rc.local" >> etc/rc.local
I have made some silly programs. One that moved the mouse pointer one pixel left, then down, right and up. It was quite annoying. Another that moved the mouse pointer when you reached the edge of the screen, touching the rightmost pixel row would move it to the left side of the screen and vice versa, same thing with top and bottom.
You basically invented the endless desktop functionality, lol
How about a programm which screams "aaaaaaa" after you unlock your screen. Barely hearable at first and it gets louder with every minute. People who don't know how to remove it would have to lock and unlock their screens every 5 minutes or so.
A virus that changes Windows' sticky keys to only requiring two taps of the shift key.
«I’m watching porno» - not porn. This was around y2k
I believe that specific site was called "Last Measure". It would also open up a bunch of shock sites...
Yep. I remember you could go to *.on.nimp.org and it'd lock up the browser with alert() loops, play something loud and obnoxious, and show shock images. In middle school we'd convince people to go to something like runescapehacks.on.nimp.org in school. I specifically remember one that said "Everyone come look, I'm looking at gay porn!" on repeat.
back when I was in school someone wrote a script that just openened the optical drive at random intervals and put it in the Autostart of every PC in the Comouter room
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