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Saying “sup” with `net send`

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Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`

#4
Very funny! I guess is this more of a universal (tech) experience than I had realized: my friends and I spent a lot of time in high school griefing each other with `net send` (and the other `net`) commands.

My memory is fuzzy at this point, but I vaguely recall being able to change others' desktop backgrounds with a remote client. That produced a lot of entertainment value.

Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`

#6
we used to do similar with the Mac's ability to speak using the command 'say'. we'd ssh into a computer we knew someone to be sitting and have it 'say' something while using their name. at least, until one day, the 'say' app was not longer available!

Re: Saying “sup” with `net send`

#9
Reminds me of the day, obviously some years earlier, that a few of us aged about 10 years discovered *NOTIFY and even better, *REMOTE on the Econet connected Beebs we had at school.

Oh, here’s the manual (PDF), which we never read: http://chrisacorns.computinghistory.org.uk/docs/Acorn/Manual...

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