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Chief McHeath
Apr 23, 2002

is there a good postscroller pr0g you can use on the forums i ahve some cool ascii art to scroll and no i wont just use [code ] brackets

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pixaal
Jan 8, 2004

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.


Ambassadorofsodomy posted:

How about when you would click on a site and like 400 porn pages would pop up in 2 seconds?

Pretty sure this also unmuted set volume to 100% and shouted hey everybody I'm looking at porno!Porto!

Just drop the link into startup folder

Junk
Dec 20, 2003

Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?
i miss warez sites with porn everywhere

i mean we got more porn than ever but no vague promises of warez to go with them

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

I was there. I saw pop ups after pop ups after pop ups, without end. The horror.

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001
It was a good time, that early age of exploration of the internet. a vast unknown, packed with splendors and horrors, all beyond our imagination. A dark and dangerous place where only brave souls dare tread.

Now days everything's far more lame.

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
I'd rather look at the pain series than another loving minions meme

Junk
Dec 20, 2003

Listen to reason, man. Why make your job difficult?
hell i would browse warez just for all the incidental porn

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

the high school I went to in 9th grade was a charter school and there was 1 single Down's Syndrome dude there, with 2 teachers specifically assigned to him.
The math teacher was the IT guy and he had all the computers ghosting from a server every morning so he didn't have to deal with the trouble, lol.
One day the Down's Syndrome dude, who was well known for purposely leaving class cuz he had to go pee to publicly masturbate, was allowed to do his work on the server.

The next morning was very funny when the nerds, including me, came to school early to LAN Mechwarrior 3 and UT and instead were greeted with ALL the Year 2000 porn viruses, on ALL the computers.

Charles Ford
Nov 27, 2004

The Earth is a farm. We are someone else’s Ford Focus.
I remember MP3 FTP servers, where you'd find the link, and then the login banner would say "to find the password, go to this weird porn URL, follow these esoteric instructions, click the furry wizard and stroke the ancient icon, then on the fifth page in the seventh paragraph the password is the twenty fourth word".

It was like a little pornographic adventure just to find the password to download a crappy copy of the latest hits.

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

MrQwerty posted:

the high school I went to in 9th grade was a charter school and there was 1 single Down's Syndrome dude there, with 2 teachers specifically assigned to him.
The math teacher was the IT guy and he had all the computers ghosting from a server every morning so he didn't have to deal with the trouble, lol.
One day the Down's Syndrome dude, who was well known for purposely leaving class cuz he had to go pee to publicly masturbate, was allowed to do his work on the server.

The next morning was very funny when the nerds, including me, came to school early to LAN Mechwarrior 3 and UT and instead were greeted with ALL the Year 2000 porn viruses, on ALL the computers.

I remember those days and I hated them.

I had to reformat the family computer 3 times because my sister kept installing limewire. I came across some truly sickening poo poo in popups. Things like rape fetish porn. My parents were about as computer literate as my sister, if they saw those popups I would have gotten the blame for it.

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

Valko posted:

I remember those days and I hated them.

I had to reformat the family computer 3 times because my sister kept installing limewire. I came across some truly sickening poo poo in popups. Things like rape fetish porn. My parents were about as computer literate as my sister, if they saw those popups I would have gotten the blame for it.

my 14 year old rear end went and got a teacher (one of the teachers that enabled the bedlam), turned on every computer that wasn't on in the computer room, and said LOOK AT THIS

and then we had to turn off all the surge protectors until the Math/IT guy got to it, since computer time was part of the curriculum

we had a real angry math class that day, and I'm pretty sure half the day was spent outside

MrQwerty fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Sep 30, 2023

Denim Dude
Feb 21, 2006
I suggest tree
Early 2000's. IRC servers did not mask hostnames, which you could translate to an ip address. Almost no one used firewalls. Almost no one had a router. Exploits like https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/33210/HOD-ms04011-lsasrv-expl.c.html existed. RATS like back orifice and netbus and soon very many more = bad times for my IRC posting enemies :)

XYZAB
Jun 29, 2003

HNNNNNGG!!
I was in grade 8/9 in ~‘99/2000 when SubSeven came out. Infecting people you knew over MSN Messenger and then watching/controlling their screen remotely was fun as hell.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?

Junk posted:

i miss warez sites with porn everywhere

i mean we got more porn than ever but no vague promises of warez to go with them

Great idea for a crossover with the Skyrim loving crowd.

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
I got hit by a nuke in Y2k

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Ambassadorofsodomy posted:

How about when you would click on a site and like 400 porn pages would pop up in 2 seconds?

I still have recurring dreams where this happens to the computer I am on, but its not porn just a virus.
And I spend the rest of the dream trying to restart and remove the virus by loving around restarting to dos prompts.
Which I did back when I was working IT.

emSparkly
Nov 21, 2022

I'm open to interpretation!
I remember one time as a kid I had a nightmare where someone hacked the family PC and the virus somehow made me legally married to someone in Russia and my dad yelled at me.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


But Em, you are married to someone in Russia. *dramatic sting*

zedprime
Jun 9, 2007

yospos
Back in my day a virus just opened your cd tray spilling your drink. Now your fridge can get gonorrhea which let's the internet watch you have sex on your nanny cam.

numberoneposter
Feb 19, 2014

How much do I cum? The answer might surprise you!

Gonna haxxx0r ur IP and nuke ur domain

MrQwerty
Apr 15, 2003

zedprime posted:

Back in my day a virus just opened your cd tray spilling your drink. Now your fridge can get gonorrhea which let's the internet watch you have sex on your nanny cam.

BackOrifice was good times

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

For a while in the late 90's or early 2000's, if you had a cable modem and you put your computer on the net without a software firewall you would be immediately infected with a virus simply by being on the network with a windows machine.

Desert Bus
May 9, 2004

Take 1 tablet by mouth daily.

zedprime posted:

Back in my day a virus just opened your cd tray spilling your drink. Now your fridge can get gonorrhea which let's the internet watch you have sex on your nanny cam.

Wait wouldn't it have to CLOSE to spill your drink? The CD tray doubled as a cup holder.

Private Cumshoe
Feb 15, 2019

AAAAAAAGAGHAAHGGAH
I've screwed up my bios and poo poo sometimes and it feels like a virus because I'm crippled by my own stupidity does that count

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


Father still has some 5 inch floppies he never could successfully disinfect in the 80's.

I'll never fogive the rear end who's virus denied me use of that funny faces program!

Sophy Wackles
Dec 17, 2000

> access main security grid
access: PERMISSION DENIED.





By popular demand posted:

Father still has some 5 inch floppies he never could successfully disinfect in the 80's.

I'll never fogive the rear end who's virus denied me use of that funny faces program!

You should check out if they still work on Windows 11.

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

Desert Bus posted:

Wait wouldn't it have to CLOSE to spill your drink? The CD tray doubled as a cup holder.

The 'CD tray as cupholder' thing must be some sort of urban legend because I've heard it so many times and the details are always just a little different.

It's like the guy who orders a pizza and when asked how many slices he wants it cut into he says "Cut it into 4, I don't think I could eat 6". I've heard that story about every pizzeria in my town but any time I order a pizza I'm never asked how I want it sliced.

emSparkly
Nov 21, 2022

I'm open to interpretation!
I assumed it started with that cup holder "virus" that opened the CD tray. I think it came from the forums actually.

Tarkus
Aug 27, 2000

The cupholder thing is as old as tray loading cd players. My dad used to joke about it back in '87.

Valko
Sep 18, 2015

emSparkly posted:

I assumed it started with that cup holder "virus" that opened the CD tray. I think it came from the forums actually.

I've been hearing that story in some form since at least '95. It's older than the forums. Hell, it might be older than you.

By popular demand
Jul 17, 2007

IT *BZZT* WASP ME--
IT WASP ME ALL *BZZT* ALONG!


I certainly read it in a windows 95 or 97 themed joke book back in the day and I remember it wasn't new then.
Definitely could believe the actual engineers at Sony playing with the prototype and figuring this joke back in the early 80's.

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
give me a cookie

wesleywillis
Dec 30, 2016

SUCK A MALE CAMEL'S DICK WITH MIRACLE WHIP!!

ded posted:

give me a cookie

Juan, don't beg me man, go in the kitchen

Action Jacktion
Jun 3, 2003

Valko posted:

The 'CD tray as cupholder' thing must be some sort of urban legend because I've heard it so many times and the details are always just a little different.

But there were definitely people who thought the mouse was a foot pedal, right?

Cabbages and VHS
Aug 25, 2004

Listen, I've been around a bit, you know, and I thought I'd seen some creepy things go on in the movie business, but I really have to say this is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.
malware has never been more prevalent or profitable than it is right now and this only continues to increase as the number of internet connected devices increases

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

Cabbages and Kings posted:

malware has never been more prevalent or profitable than it is right now and this only continues to increase as the number of internet connected devices increases

My toaster got hacked!

dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

redshirt posted:

My toaster got hacked!

Was it browsing dodgy toaster porn sites or something?

emSparkly
Nov 21, 2022

I'm open to interpretation!

Cabbages and Kings posted:

malware has never been more prevalent or profitable than it is right now and this only continues to increase as the number of internet connected devices increases

But it's not fun anymore. I don't even know if they're still doing scary ransomware these days. It's all just browser hijacks and bitcoin miners now.

redshirt
Aug 11, 2007

dr_rat posted:

Was it browsing dodgy toaster porn sites or something?

Butter porn

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dr_rat
Jun 4, 2001

redshirt posted:

Butter porn

:hmmyes:

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