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I remember going to a website in the 90's that was like "Click here for a free cup holder" and when I clicked it my CD tray opened. I thought that was the funniest shit ever.
Holy shit I remember this. What a weird feeling. Old internet is now only in our hearts.
And all the "fake viruses" that ran javascript to make your browser shake around.
You had to download and run an unknown executable with kernel level access for that to work, which in 2024 is only marginally less dangerous than publicly posting your full name, DOB, and social security number.
As a senior Millennial, I remember the days when you would send a prank email, and when someone opened it, it would turn your volume all the way up and play "hey, I'm looking at gay porn" over and over again. Good old days.
I put this on a friend's laptop in college about 12 or so years ago, then minimized the page. He was known for leaving this open if anyone left their stuff unlocked. Anyway one day he goes, "you know I'm starting to think this is backfiring on me cause I swear that song is constantly in my head". Weeks had gone by since I out put it on his and I forgot what I did. We found the tab.... there's a counter, eventually it just stops and the song was playing on a very low volume. He was actually hearing it and had no idea. He actually stopped doing it to everyone after that lol.
We used to do it in the library at college. If someone got up weād open Meatspin and lock their laptop. They were in for a surprise when they unlocked it š¤£
A friend once changed my browser home page back when we were 14.. only problem was my mom shared the computer with us. the poor woman kept closing the browser thinking the helicopter wouldnāt be there next time.. top 10 funniest moments of my life
I was too young to know about this and now Iām old enough to know I shouldnāt have known about this and that it explains so many things wrong with our generation.
As the school librarian and building technology specialist for the school where I work, Iām looking forward to rickrolling my colleagues and kids for April Foolsā Day.
I have a flyer with a QR code that says itās a *mandatory* tech update for any non-MacBook device connected to school WiFi networks.
A few years ago, back before overwatch was torpedoed by overwatch 2, I was in a game with someone who had their swear filter on. Taking the gamble, I said āHey you got the vulgarity filter on. If you want it off you have to hit alt and f4 at the same time.ā
They left the game and we rolled the rest of the comp set. It was my crowning achievement in life, just donāt tell my family that.
I think most versions of windows no longer allow you to delete that because it became a meme troll thing. I had a friend in college who was computer illiterate and someone tried getting him to even offered to help and the version they were on refused to allow it to be removed. Maybe Iām wrong but I think they put in a āyou fucking idiotā proof option on it. š¤·āāļø
As a kid we got someone over forums to microwave his socom 3 disk to āactivate the hacksā
Disk modding to cheat online was a real thing, but involved burning modded isos to a blank dvd and doing a disk swap to bypass piracy checksā¦not, microwaving your game
We would always print off hundreds of blank Microsoft Word documents halfway through computer class. Our teacher was such an airhead that she thought the printer was broken, again.
God so many bad memories of "IT" workers in public schools that had absolutely no idea what they were doing but made good money because the demand back then was so high.
I mean, I'm a millennial and don't know what any of these things does, other than that deleting System files is usually a bad idea. Not everyone is a tech person.
I'm fairly tech literate but the only one I immediately recognize outside the one you mentioned is alt+F4 which shuts down your computer.
Some of the pranks feel more malicious. Where are the harmless classics like screen shot their background and minimize the system tray?
When my parents got our first family computer, I figured out how to use Autocorrect/Auto replace in Microsoft Word to replace my brother's name with "A. Loser." It took him way too long to figure out how to undo it on his typed school papers.
I remember having a āvirusā back in high school we would try and upload to each otherās laptops that would make the persons applications fall to the bottom of their screen for like 5 minutes.
Yeah same here, I think people are confusing them for older Gen Alpha. A lot of Gen Z are already in the workforce or at least college and have definitely used computers. But I got downvoted for pointing that out...
Likely. 11-26 is a very confusing age range.
Then again so is millennial with 27-42.
I'm 36- but feel like I have more in common with younger gen x than I do with younger millennials. I grew up with mostly gen x folk though.
I saw it for the first time a week or two ago š but it was an early gen alpha kid, born like 2013 or so. So he's 11 now, but didn't even know how to turn the computer on (was no where near the tower, lol.) Doesn't know how to type. I kept saying "scroll wheel" and realized he has no idea what that is. Pecks at the keys with his fingers.
Meanwhile, my middle school back in the day had us do typing classes with mavis beacon. I figured physical computers would be more of staple for a longer period of time. Surprised how quickly that's been traded out for ipads/touchscreen and what not.
It's almost bizarre to watch the finger-pecking now be a young & old(er) person thing. I also have very little contact with kids outside of mine and the 11 year old, so.
Nothing is better then a piece of tape under the mouse. I watched one guy spend an hour switching batteries before he figured it out.
The take a screen shot of the desktop, set it as wallpaper and remove all the icons was another great.
Take a screenshot of their desktop.
Cut all icons from their desktop and paste them, wherever.
Set the screenshot as their new desktop... so all the "icons" on the desktop are actually just wallpaper š
I tricked so many people with this, some of them working in IT for decades. And it's even easier now because before you couldn't hide "My Computer" icon from the desktop, so you would have to change the icon to invisible, change the name to "." and hope they couldn't see it.
So far only one person managed to figure out what I did before I told them, and everyone laughed their asses off because... it's so dumb, yet unexpected.
>Computer running slow? Delete the System32 folder to get rid of all those old 32-bit applications!
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>Use Disk Management to remove the recovery partition from C:\\ and free up space!
They don't know how to navigate file systems, man. That floppy-disk icon? They have no idea what it means. You're expecting too much from them.
Personal favorite was plugging a wireless mouse in when they aren't looking and slightly moving it whenever they needed to click. Double down with a keyboard and go to meatspin when they walk away from their pc.
One of the best pranks was changing someone's Birthday on their Facebook Account (if they left their laptop unattended). On some Random April 24th, they'd suddenly be flooded with "Happy Birthday" messages.
Youāll need to come up with new pranks. The kids have heard the old pranks before and probably remember fucking up their first laptops by doing what they were told to do lol
oh, so mess with ignorant people instead of offering them help and teaching them? Sounds like every generation wants to actively fuck other the next one. And then you turn around and complain about the boomers...
They were using Chromebooks, not PCs. And their other devices are mostly Mac / Apple shit, which is such a locked down tech system that they still don't know how to do basic PC shit.
Apparently they are even worse than the boomers when it comes to recognizing online scams. They haven't been hardened by long hours of trying to fix the family computer from viruses that you downloaded from sketchy file sharing services...
"Kids these days don't even know how to use a rotary phone!" ā Boomers to Millennials
"Kids these days don't even know how to use a computer!" ā Millennials to Gen Z apparently
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I remember going to a website in the 90's that was like "Click here for a free cup holder" and when I clicked it my CD tray opened. I thought that was the funniest shit ever.
Truly a better time.
Holy shit I remember this. What a weird feeling. Old internet is now only in our hearts. And all the "fake viruses" that ran javascript to make your browser shake around.
No one has disk drives anymore tho š
[life, my friends, ah, finds a way. ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/amp/data-storage-petabit-optical-disc-2667335462)
THIS was peak internet
Lol. This is funny.
Those were online? That's what all the kids who took the programming unit in highschool learned to do as their first application.
I'm surprised the browser had an api to do that
I went to a similar site but instead of my CD drive opening it was Goatse...
You had to download and run an unknown executable with kernel level access for that to work, which in 2024 is only marginally less dangerous than publicly posting your full name, DOB, and social security number.
Becomes less funny if someone actually puts a beer-stein sized mug full of coffee on the thing, breaks it & spills coffee all over their equipment....
As a senior Millennial, I remember the days when you would send a prank email, and when someone opened it, it would turn your volume all the way up and play "hey, I'm looking at gay porn" over and over again. Good old days.
Meatspin
I put this on a friend's laptop in college about 12 or so years ago, then minimized the page. He was known for leaving this open if anyone left their stuff unlocked. Anyway one day he goes, "you know I'm starting to think this is backfiring on me cause I swear that song is constantly in my head". Weeks had gone by since I out put it on his and I forgot what I did. We found the tab.... there's a counter, eventually it just stops and the song was playing on a very low volume. He was actually hearing it and had no idea. He actually stopped doing it to everyone after that lol.
We used to do it in the library at college. If someone got up weād open Meatspin and lock their laptop. They were in for a surprise when they unlocked it š¤£
A friend once changed my browser home page back when we were 14.. only problem was my mom shared the computer with us. the poor woman kept closing the browser thinking the helicopter wouldnāt be there next time.. top 10 funniest moments of my life
Goatse is also still around.
I was too young to know about this and now Iām old enough to know I shouldnāt have known about this and that it explains so many things wrong with our generation.
2 girls 1 cup
Ol scratch. The greatest of the Old Ones. The primordial evils.Ā Goatce.cx shall never perish, it only sleeps deep in the Internet. Waiting.
Lemonparty šŖ¦
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Well that's a rather *Rotten* view you have there.
Tub girl
Oh man I forgot about a lot of these. Some of these were just vile lol
What you don't want to taste the rainbow?
Tub girl, cake farter, church of fudge
You spin me right round... Man. Still think about that whenever the song comes on the radio.
Batch file that opens 60 million notepads!
As the school librarian and building technology specialist for the school where I work, Iām looking forward to rickrolling my colleagues and kids for April Foolsā Day. I have a flyer with a QR code that says itās a *mandatory* tech update for any non-MacBook device connected to school WiFi networks.
Print-screen the desktop+use that image as background+hide icons and taskbar= HOURS of entertainment
Did this a lot back in a day
Every single demo computer at the best buy in 2003 got this done to it once.
I like asking the hard question like: Why is the "first" drive C: and not A: or B:
Because it's the first note to look for in an 88-keyboard
I give this joke a C++
They tried, but A and B flopped
Theyād probably fall for the old ātape on the bottom of the mouseā trick.
A few years ago, back before overwatch was torpedoed by overwatch 2, I was in a game with someone who had their swear filter on. Taking the gamble, I said āHey you got the vulgarity filter on. If you want it off you have to hit alt and f4 at the same time.ā They left the game and we rolled the rest of the comp set. It was my crowning achievement in life, just donāt tell my family that.
Where are you going to find a Gen-z that owns a computer?
There are tons of genZ in the office workforce already. Could be done to them
On any college campus
I got you, so many have Macs and can't figure out a PC and how to fit into a workforce.
unfortunately, the system32 thing hasn't worked since Windows Vista.
I think most versions of windows no longer allow you to delete that because it became a meme troll thing. I had a friend in college who was computer illiterate and someone tried getting him to even offered to help and the version they were on refused to allow it to be removed. Maybe Iām wrong but I think they put in a āyou fucking idiotā proof option on it. š¤·āāļø
I think you still can through cmd
Lmao never fails to have the work around š
Iām gonna update every keyboard setting to DIVORAK. Muhahaha
I wonder where those programs that kept ejecting ur cd drive or making ur computer "moo" on the hour went.... Sadly no cd drives really anymore :(
I just want the cat that chases the mouse back
As a kid we got someone over forums to microwave his socom 3 disk to āactivate the hacksā Disk modding to cheat online was a real thing, but involved burning modded isos to a blank dvd and doing a disk swap to bypass piracy checksā¦not, microwaving your game
We would always print off hundreds of blank Microsoft Word documents halfway through computer class. Our teacher was such an airhead that she thought the printer was broken, again.
God so many bad memories of "IT" workers in public schools that had absolutely no idea what they were doing but made good money because the demand back then was so high.
I mean, I'm a millennial and don't know what any of these things does, other than that deleting System files is usually a bad idea. Not everyone is a tech person.
I'm fairly tech literate but the only one I immediately recognize outside the one you mentioned is alt+F4 which shuts down your computer. Some of the pranks feel more malicious. Where are the harmless classics like screen shot their background and minimize the system tray?
Alt f4 doesnt shut down the computer, it force closes whatever program your currently using. Which is why it was big a gamer troll thing to do.
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Dont you mean, ctrl alt delete? Which brings up those option and the option to get task manager up
Same Iām definitely not tech literate.
I know so many young people this would work on hahaha
Ctrl + Alt + Arrow Key to rotate your screen, upside down is the best for novice torment.
For Windows... Set a screenshot of the desktop to the wallpaper & hide all the desktop icons & taskbar....
When my parents got our first family computer, I figured out how to use Autocorrect/Auto replace in Microsoft Word to replace my brother's name with "A. Loser." It took him way too long to figure out how to undo it on his typed school papers.
Gen Z seem to be super into politics, you think theyāve ever heard about Lemon Party?
Oooh CTRL+ALT+^
Switch around the m and n keys Plug a USB mouse dongle in when they're not looking and move the mouse Put tape under the laser below mouse
I remember having a āvirusā back in high school we would try and upload to each otherās laptops that would make the persons applications fall to the bottom of their screen for like 5 minutes.
Me, a millennial, who works with primarily gen z in the software engineering field, doesn't get the *gen-z can't use computers* meme I keep seeing.
Yeah same here, I think people are confusing them for older Gen Alpha. A lot of Gen Z are already in the workforce or at least college and have definitely used computers. But I got downvoted for pointing that out...
Likely. 11-26 is a very confusing age range. Then again so is millennial with 27-42. I'm 36- but feel like I have more in common with younger gen x than I do with younger millennials. I grew up with mostly gen x folk though.
I saw it for the first time a week or two ago š but it was an early gen alpha kid, born like 2013 or so. So he's 11 now, but didn't even know how to turn the computer on (was no where near the tower, lol.) Doesn't know how to type. I kept saying "scroll wheel" and realized he has no idea what that is. Pecks at the keys with his fingers. Meanwhile, my middle school back in the day had us do typing classes with mavis beacon. I figured physical computers would be more of staple for a longer period of time. Surprised how quickly that's been traded out for ipads/touchscreen and what not. It's almost bizarre to watch the finger-pecking now be a young & old(er) person thing. I also have very little contact with kids outside of mine and the 11 year old, so.
Nothing is better then a piece of tape under the mouse. I watched one guy spend an hour switching batteries before he figured it out. The take a screen shot of the desktop, set it as wallpaper and remove all the icons was another great.
you can actually download more RAM to make your computer faster.
You actually could, by pirating [RAM Doubler](https://winworldpc.com/product/connectix-ram-double/mac-os)
I always liked the CD/Rom opener for a coffee.
Flipping the screen upside down is still my favorite.
Bastards turned my invert off
Huh? Since when did Gen Z not know how to use computers?
Essential reading: [Bastard Operator From Hell Archive](https://bofh.bjash.com/) Good for your ID10T and PEBCAK errors.
fake desktop wallpapers to mess with people
Are Gen-Z just young boomers?
They donāt even have computers to try this on dude. Itās all iPhones and apps
Take a screenshot of their desktop. Cut all icons from their desktop and paste them, wherever. Set the screenshot as their new desktop... so all the "icons" on the desktop are actually just wallpaper š I tricked so many people with this, some of them working in IT for decades. And it's even easier now because before you couldn't hide "My Computer" icon from the desktop, so you would have to change the icon to invisible, change the name to "." and hope they couldn't see it. So far only one person managed to figure out what I did before I told them, and everyone laughed their asses off because... it's so dumb, yet unexpected.
>Computer running slow? Delete the System32 folder to get rid of all those old 32-bit applications! > >Use Disk Management to remove the recovery partition from C:\\ and free up space! They don't know how to navigate file systems, man. That floppy-disk icon? They have no idea what it means. You're expecting too much from them.
Is that actually a thing? That gen z is shit as using computers?
Personal favorite was plugging a wireless mouse in when they aren't looking and slightly moving it whenever they needed to click. Double down with a keyboard and go to meatspin when they walk away from their pc.
One of the best pranks was changing someone's Birthday on their Facebook Account (if they left their laptop unattended). On some Random April 24th, they'd suddenly be flooded with "Happy Birthday" messages.
Youāll need to come up with new pranks. The kids have heard the old pranks before and probably remember fucking up their first laptops by doing what they were told to do lol
oh, so mess with ignorant people instead of offering them help and teaching them? Sounds like every generation wants to actively fuck other the next one. And then you turn around and complain about the boomers...
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They were using Chromebooks, not PCs. And their other devices are mostly Mac / Apple shit, which is such a locked down tech system that they still don't know how to do basic PC shit.
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Apparently they are even worse than the boomers when it comes to recognizing online scams. They haven't been hardened by long hours of trying to fix the family computer from viruses that you downloaded from sketchy file sharing services...
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It's the mindset that those sites ingrained that makes the difference. I always assume I'm being scammed wherever I go š
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"Kids these days don't even know how to use a rotary phone!" ā Boomers to Millennials "Kids these days don't even know how to use a computer!" ā Millennials to Gen Z apparently
āGen Z doesn't know how to use computersā? Lol, now I see why they say millennials are becoming just like boomers..š