Saying “sup” with `net send`
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Saying “sup” with `net send`
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#2Ah the memories of innocence in computing :)
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#3I also discovered net send in high school and abused it similarly for a brief time, but never knew it had wildcard support! wow
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#4Very 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.
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#5Read to the end!
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#6we 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!
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#7Read to the end!
my page didn't load the images (or whatever) in any kind of timely manner, so i bailed on it before they loaded. was there more than just the one pop-up?
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#8I wrote a net send script in high school that sent a pop up to every computer in the building… 500 times. Someone snitched on me. I regret nothing.
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#9Reminds 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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#10Oh goodness, what an awesome end. I love this article so much.