In 1996, our school had a break room with 30 DOS-based computers running Pegasus. Each computer would typically have a queue of 3-4 people behind the current user, all eager to check their mail. Most had no internet at home or very limited/expensive access.
Me and some friends were into programming. We would exit Pegasus to return back to the DOS prompt, and then write simple programs that persist in memory, so basically running in the background. Next, we'd reopen Pegasus and left the station.
The next in line would log in to their email and be busy with it for some 5 minutes after which our program would activate. It would draw random pixels on screen, mirror the entire screen vertically, output random tones on the beeper, all kinds of weird stuff to suggest that the machine is possessed.
We'd be hiding behind some column observing it and laughing.
Pretty pathetic, but good times.
Me and some friends were into programming. We would exit Pegasus to return back to the DOS prompt, and then write simple programs that persist in memory, so basically running in the background. Next, we'd reopen Pegasus and left the station.
The next in line would log in to their email and be busy with it for some 5 minutes after which our program would activate. It would draw random pixels on screen, mirror the entire screen vertically, output random tones on the beeper, all kinds of weird stuff to suggest that the machine is possessed.
We'd be hiding behind some column observing it and laughing.
Pretty pathetic, but good times.