net send was the messenger of choice on the St. Petersburg State University campus back in the 00's. People called it “popup” (after the earlier WinPopup utility perhaps). I remember seeing some announcements (like about lost belongings or something) put up on a (physical!) bulletin board saying “message me on popup: [hostname]”
Saying “sup” with `net send`
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#112Probably worth mentioning that, at a place I worked at in the XP era, we used net send in the way it was probably intended: to send short messages to other people on the same network. The same type of day-to-day stuff that is sent over Teams today. The * usage was known but not used often, and not outright abused (though it may have been overused, given the level of annoyance it could generate).
I always found the *nix 'talk' command much more annoying, since it would throw off the screen drawing for programs like pine.
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#113lol my friends and I discovered the same thing in high school programming class. Except we put "net send *" in an infinite loop with the message "lol dicks". That day, we were heroes (and villains, to the extremely computer illiterate staff)
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#114I recall in the late 80s on vt100's accessing BITNET allowed you to 'net send'-like to other BITNET nodes around the country. I used to randomly try to contact other users at other random educational institutions after using the 'finger' equivalent to remote BITNET sites. I can only imagine how my messaging probably messed up their terminal session screens and just end-user confusion ensuing. Another 'write' unix she…
> to 'net send'-like to other BITNET node
The command was TELL on IBM VM operating systems, IIRC. "TELL AT ".
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#115I got fired from a training placement in 98 for sending a NET SEND message to the internal Novell Netware 4.xx based mail server, stopped the mail for about 30 mins.
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#116just wanted to say I enjoyed the alert() at the end It was an absolute free for all when windows machines started to be plugged into campus networks. The prankster's evolution generally went from net send to NetBus and then to Back Orifice in those days as the tools rapidly made such tomfoolery a point-and-click affair. Interestingly many of the features in these early Windows prankster/hacking tools heavily shaped m…
Sub7!
I still have a copy of it on a floppy somewhere, renaming the exe to coolpicture.bmp [extra spaces] .exe and sending it to people.
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#117I was working a tech conference, probably around 2001, with about a hundred PCs networked together. A colleague of mine intended to send a simple "net send" message to only my workstation, just as a joke. He messed up the syntax and the popup appeared on every PC in the conference, including the giant screen in the main conference hall. The message: "Fuck you" . He was fired the next day. (Don't feel bad for the guy.…
I did the exact same thing in a freshman engineering course although the wording of my message was slightly different. My message wound up being displayed on the classroom projector. The Professor (former marine) dispatched the TAs to find the computer it came from. Each computer in the classroom was clearly labelled with an ID so it did not take them long.
Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`
#118I was working a tech conference, probably around 2001, with about a hundred PCs networked together. A colleague of mine intended to send a simple "net send" message to only my workstation, just as a joke. He messed up the syntax and the popup appeared on every PC in the conference, including the giant screen in the main conference hall. The message: "Fuck you" . He was fired the next day. (Don't feel bad for the guy.…
I did the same in middle school. Thankfully my message was just the letter q and not something offensive.
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#119Oh man. This is so similar to my high school story. The only difference is instead of 'sup', one of my friends typed 'you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man'.
Although, I don't actually think they really tried or were ever going to try to catch him.
Same thing for me, the feature was disabled shortly thereafter.
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#120Pretty funny seeing how many others did similar pranks. The best one we discovered was that the third party screen sharing / remote admin tool installed on every computer in every lab/classroom (high school) consisted of client.exe and server.exe, with no password, and while server.exe was not installed on the client machines, it was in a shared folder in at least one place on the network.
All that was required to "take over" any machine on the network was to open server.exe and enter the IP address