 Ooh, so 1999, again ready to graduate from high school. And me and my friends are sitting around talking about possible senior pranks. And of course, one of the ideas was a technology based one, messing with the school computers. And so me and my friends are sitting around and we're talking about wondering if the school wipes the computers because supposedly they wipe the computers every summer, but you know, they probably don't. And if we could infect the computers with something with a delayed reaction that did something the next year after we're already gone and home said retired, gone and what do you call it, graduated. It's that way we don't get in trouble with the school though obviously, especially nowadays that you're looking at legal problems. We ended up actually never doing the idea with the school computers, but I did implement it somewhere else. So this was the idea. Write a program, not time. Back in the day I was a Windows user and I did most things through batch files and not batch files, batch files and visual basic. And at the time, Windows had the obvious flaw. This just shows how Windows developers were just that at the time a teenager, anybody, obviously this was a bad idea that you create a CD and you put an INI, an auto INI file on there that says the name of a program on the CD and it runs that program when you put it in automatically without the user interaction, trying to make things simple but obviously that's a bad idea. So I used to make these CDs. Before that, I used to make Windows boot disks, the floppy disks, but CDs are even faster and just drop it in. You know, at the time Windows had no permissions. You drop it in, you can do whatever you want. So the idea, getting back to the prank, was to have it where we could, I would make this program, put it on disk, give it to a bunch of people and they would go around to all the school computers. Everyone, they'd get in, pop it in and basically it would run, they would ding and eject the CD after it's done installing the program. And what was programmed, it was weighed for a certain date. Every time the computer turned on, it checked the date and after a certain date, it would lock the keyboard and then full screen display a very inappropriate picture. I was a teenager. That's the sort of things teenagers do. And so again, we never did this at the school but I worked at a place that sold computers and I wouldn't mess with the computers quite often that we sold just because. And so I was actually upset. It was actually after I stopped working there. I'm sorry, remembering more of the story as I'm telling it. I quit there. I actually bought something from there and went to return and they gave me a run around with the return and it's a preferable refund. So I was a little upset. So I decided, hey, I'm gonna use that idea on their display computers. So I made the CD and acted like I was at the computer, dropped it into three or four of them and set it for a few days later when the computers turned on. Again, it would wait a couple hours because the computers turned on when in the morning before the store's open and you want these things to pop up while there's customers in the store. So basically it would run the program, the computer would count down two or three hours and then display this image on the screen and lock the keyboard. Well, I installed it on four of these machines, waited a couple of days, went in later that day with a buddy of mine and I know most of the people who work there because I used to work there myself. So I was about to walk in and someone would be like, hey, you won't believe what happened today. This, this, that, but nobody's saying anything. So I'm like, I must have wrote something wrong. The program didn't run like it was supposed to. So I said to my buddy, I go, help me go in and go to these four computers and we're gonna delete the files and we're gonna try again. So I go to one, he goes to one and we delete files. I go to another one, you delete file. We go to the last computer and it's sitting there and I think it's off. I go, oh, we pressed the screen button. The computer was on, the screen was off. We pressed the button and the picture was there and I grabbed my buddy and we just walked out. Nobody ever said anything but we just left it sitting there. Anyway, that was a prank at the time. Inappropriate, wouldn't do that now but as a teenager, it was kind of funny at the time. That's it for this story. Thanks for watching. As always, I hope that you have a great day.