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Keith Atherton posted:This was in 1996 or so but there was a group email discussion among some contractors at Microsoft and they were making fun of one guy. So someone replied about “Ben’s hairy rear end” and CC’d “Ben’s Dad” Last year NHSmail, the secure email for the UK National Health Service had a user email the entire NHS an event invite. Its the single biggest employer in the UK so tens of thousands of people got the email and Outlook only displayed the first few recipients so they started sending 'this wasn't meant for me' email. Took the whole thing down for a couple of days.
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EdBlackadder posted:Last year NHSmail, the secure email for the UK National Health Service had a user email the entire NHS an event invite. Its the single biggest employer in the UK so tens of thousands of people got the email and Outlook only displayed the first few recipients so they started sending 'this wasn't meant for me' email. Took the whole thing down for a couple of days. A similar thing happened at Microsoft in the 90s, except in their case the issue was compounded by a bug in their mail server that caused it to crash after delivering 8,000 messages so it would re-start and try to send all the messages again. It took days for them to get the situation under control and in the end they estimated 195 gigabytes of e-mail traffic was generated (remember, this was the 90s when a gigabyte was still a lot of data).
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Cojawfee posted:Speaking of null modems. 10 years ago, I worked in a computer store and the owner just shouts "Gary why the gently caress did you order 20 null modem cables?" Few years back a company wide communication went out about the passing of a former CEO. There was a distro created specifically for this since there is otherwise not a need to email tens of thousands of people at one time, you can use the intranet. They didn’t bcc this distro. Some genius decided this was his chance to spread his message of the “true” meaning of thanksgiving, some rambling nonsense about Jesus and the pilgrims. The reply alls, oh my god. The network was so hosed, it was an absolute shitstorm. It took until the end of the next day to unwind all the chaos.
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Jul 30, 2019 12:19
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The good companies today set up mailing lists so only a select few are allowed to send mails to them. Now, we just get one or two HR dumb-dumbs "please remove me"-ing.
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big crush on Chad OMG posted:Few years back a company wide communication went out about the passing of a former CEO. There was a distro created specifically for this since there is otherwise not a need to email tens of thousands of people at one time, you can use the intranet. The true meaning of thanksgiving is saturating network links with forwards from boomer relatives. It’s what the pilgrims always dreamed of.
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How about a razorblade sharpener: https://i.imgur.com/FssJCuK.mp4
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barbecue at the folks posted:How about a razorblade sharpener: I would use this poo poo out of this
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Pffft. You and your “moving parts”.
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A discussion of the Afte Dark screensaver in another thread got me thinking of something I hadn't thought of in a while...The Talking Moose. I loving loved that app. It would make random comments, tell jokes, read menus that you selected (and sometimes make jokes about it, like when you would choose "Quit" it might say something like "Quit before you get fired." I remember on the MacDraw app, when you chose "Rotate" it would pronounce it "raw-tate." To this day, I still say it that way in my head. RIP Talking Moose 
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https://talkingmoose.ca/
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Jesus they found the uncanny valley of talking mooses
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Coffee And Pie posted:I would use this poo poo out of this My grandfather had one of these and it kind of sucked and he never used it. It looks cool, but when you factor in the extra steps of needing to take out the blade and mount it in the sharpener it's not really more convenient than just using a whetstone.
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I remember good old WinPopup.exe being removed from every computer in the school after a week long session of chaos as every kid who touched a computer was shown how to use it by a friend.
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I don't remember netsend being a thing in my school. I did show some people you could take a room number, add 100 to that, and dial that number from some other room and be put on the PA in just that room. That spread around for a while, and lead to random PA announcements of fart noises, and maybe some jokes about the principal. My brother had a teacher who was hearing impaired, they used her room as a target a lot. The real madness started when someone figured out that you could call into the system from a cell phone. You no longer had to worry about commandeering a phone in some empty classroom, and people got bolder. Too bold, saying some awful things about fellow students, and it was no longer just a practical joke. They made some changes to the phone system. All the extensions were renumbered, and kept secret in the admin offices. No more lateral calls between classrooms. The outside lines were also disabled, they had only been added that year.
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Finally set up my old console and computer gaming room today. Still looks a bit bare, but at least things are plugged in and working The CRT has a Wii, fat PS2, SNES and Mega Drive II plugged into it.  On the top shelf is a C64C, a converter box to allow 15khz computers work on newer monitors via VGA and a Commodore 1084 monitor. Under that is a Samsung TV which has SCART (great for the Amiga and Atari ST), A1200 on top of an Atari STE and under the desk is a Pentium II 266 mid tower computer running Windows 98 SE off a CF Card.
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Guy Axlerod posted:I don't remember netsend being a thing in my school. I did show some people you could take a room number, add 100 to that, and dial that number from some other room and be put on the PA in just that room. That spread around for a while, and lead to random PA announcements of fart noises, and maybe some jokes about the principal. My brother had a teacher who was hearing impaired, they used her room as a target a lot. When my hometown's junior high was first built in the mid-1990s, it had a few things that were considered neat. Like all schools, there was a way to broadcast movies from the library to every classroom. Most teachers needing to show something for their class would also use that system as I reckon there weren't many extra VCRs and since it was a small school, it was doubtful more than one teacher needed the service. Because of this, there was technology through the in-classroom phone that they could rewind, fast-forward, stop and play movies without going to the library. That ended when bored coaches realized the phone system commands worked from any classroom phone and used it to occasionally mess with the movie. For the first couple of years, the school's in-classroom TVs were also unfiltered, meaning they could pick up every cable channel that was part of the school's cable plan. This didn't mean anything evil, but after parents and administration got their panties in a bunch over an incident where a student switched one room's channel to BET and another where a teacher was talked into putting on a soap opera, that feature was removed. Someone later found out you could still access cable with a VCR hookup to the classroom TV.
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I can feel the load times through the screen. People don't even remember the pain of old school computing, waiting waiting waiting then disc failures.
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Is that Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix aka World Circuit? If not then I have played none of those that I can identify  What is the hexagonal (assuming it's symmetrical) box?
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You Am I posted:Finally set up my old console and computer gaming room today. Still looks a bit bare, but at least things are plugged in and working Same energy 
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At least those gallon milk jugs appear to be filled with water and not piss
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Duckula posted:Same energy More dead bodies or more waifu pillows? You decide
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Buttcoin purse posted:Is that Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix aka World Circuit? If not then I have played none of those that I can identify You haven't played Half Life 2?
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Like all schools, there was a way to broadcast movies from the library to every classroom. Whoa, take it easy there, Future Kid. We had a PA system for the principal to read the morning announcements, and that was it as far as building-wide AV systems went. For the whole school to watch a video, they'd have to physically cram us all into the gym for an assembly. If it was just your class, then it was time to roll in one of these:  Or, if it was an older video that hadn't been released in the newfangled "VHS" format, then it was time to go old-school:  Or if it wasn't even really a video, but just a slideshow with a tape-recorded audio track:  It was always wonderful to be the one chosen to sit at the filmstrip projector and use the control to advance to the next frame when the soundtrack beeped. (And it was equally frustrating when some other idiot was chosen to do it, and would gently caress it up somehow, perhaps being a frame behind or ahead.)
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Powered Descent posted:Whoa, take it easy there, Future Kid. We had a PA system for the principal to read the morning announcements, and that was it as far as building-wide AV systems went. For the whole school to watch a video, they'd have to physically cram us all into the gym for an assembly. If it was just your class, then it was time to roll in one of these: Yeah, videotape wasn't a thing outside TV stations when I was a kid. It was all projectors, filmstrips, and these guys: 
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Yeah, videotape wasn't a thing outside TV stations when I was a kid. It was all projectors, filmstrips, and these guys: My lazy slob boomer geometry teacher in 1999 had a huge roll of clear plastic film for this thing and she'd write on it in permanent marker and just cut it and throw it away, writing the same notes on it for 3 periods a day, 5 days a week Extremely boomer of her
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Ah yes, films. So much fun in elementary school when they couldn't get it working half the time. I remember watching The Sound of Music on one at school. We had a science teacher who did nothing but project transparencies all day long for "taking notes." Each class was basically just copying down the transparencies word for word as he read them off and discussed them in slightly more detail. I remember in art class one day, the teacher brought out the rare "opaque projector" so she could project paintings from a book. It was basically just a camcorder/video projector combo unit. It was extremely amazing to me though, being used to standard transparency projectors. Wow, it's not all washed out!
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LifeSunDeath posted:I can feel the load times through the screen. People don't even remember the pain of old school computing, waiting waiting waiting then disc failures. Buttcoin purse posted:Is that Microprose Formula 1 Grand Prix aka World Circuit? If not then I have played none of those that I can identify The hexagonal box game is Centauri Alliance for the C64. It's a Sci Fi RPG, very similar to what Mass Effect became with different alien races and a mysterious force about to ruin the peace of the universe Duckula posted:Same energy Meh, at least I have carpet floors :p
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CaptainSarcastic posted:Yeah, videotape wasn't a thing outside TV stations when I was a kid. It was all projectors, filmstrips, and these guys: I had a history professor last year who still had an overhead projector.
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Cojawfee posted:I had a history professor last year who still had an overhead projector. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFmhRLiYho0
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GI_Clutch posted:We had a science teacher who did nothing but project transparencies all day long for "taking notes." Each class was basically just copying down the transparencies word for word as he read them off and discussed them in slightly more detail. That was our mandatory high school health class. He didn't discuss things though, he would just put a page of text on the overhead and expect us to copy it. You couldn't paraphrase or just outline the important bits either, because he checked notebooks every few weeks and if you didn't copy down his text dumps word for word your grade was lowered, and the notebook checks counted for something like half of the final grade.
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The_Franz posted:That was our mandatory high school health class. He didn't discuss things though, he would just put a page of text on the overhead and expect us to copy it. You couldn't paraphrase or just outline the important bits either, because he checked notebooks every few weeks and if you didn't copy down his text dumps word for word your grade was lowered, and the notebook checks counted for something like half of the final grade. The geometry teacher i mentioned before did this re: grading the notebook, but she didn't even keep a record of the notes She used the class valedictorian's notebook as the rubric and judged everyone else's by how close it was to hers
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LifeSunDeath posted:I can feel the load times through the screen. People don't even remember the pain of old school computing, waiting waiting waiting then disc failures. When I was a kid I was only allowed half an hour a day on the computer. I ended up with a stopwatch being a cheeky fucker 'loading times don't count!'
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GI_Clutch posted:Ah yes, films. So much fun in elementary school when they couldn't get it working half the time. I remember watching The Sound of Music on one at school. I think my elementary school art teacher had one of these opaque projectors:  https://www.ebay.com/itm/Charles-Beseler-12300-Vu-Lyte-III-Vintage-Opaque-Overhead-Presentation-Projector-/382898214297 The original was rolled in on the conveyor belt, and then a really loving bright light inside reflected off of it to be projected. The_Franz posted:That was our mandatory high school health class. He didn't discuss things though, he would just put a page of text on the overhead and expect us to copy it. You couldn't paraphrase or just outline the important bits either, because he checked notebooks every few weeks and if you didn't copy down his text dumps word for word your grade was lowered, and the notebook checks counted for something like half of the final grade. I had a history teacher who did notebook checks. He demanded we take his notes onto the right page, and then write our own reflections on the left side. I refused to ever do the left side notes and therefor failed all of the notebook checks. I somehow still got an A on the exams and therefore an A in the class. Who knew?
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Guy Axlerod posted:I think my elementary school art teacher had one of these opaque projectors: Looks like a goddamn iron lung...
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We were still using reel-to-reel projectors when I started kindergarten in '94 and they kept using them through at least '97 when I went off to the new charter school for a few years. They had VCRs too, but they had such a backlog of film that they wanted to keep getting their monies worth. Now the brand new charter school was supposed to be tech focused so they had CCTV in all the classrooms that they could show the morning announcements on that, and everyone got a Mac clone to bring home. Pity they weren't so good at teaching math.
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Teachers not knowing how to work a VCR is such BS, I see you Ms. Vruwink in the Family Video renting really old anime. Or you Mr. Bauer trying to sneak out of the adults only section.
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I went to middle school from 04-07 and we watched everything on tapes/DVD except for this which we had to watch on 8mm, thanks Mrs Schneider https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIX70xTMD2o
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You're not a 90s kid unless you did one of those laserdisc solve the mystery things in school.
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Cojawfee posted:You're not a 90s kid unless you did one of those laserdisc solve the mystery things in school. We used it for Karaoke
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