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That also reminds me of when I regularly used to visit our local library after school (junior in high school at that time) which had these job terminals (win95
by bashwizard 7y ago
That also reminds me of when I regularly used to visit our local library after school (junior in high school at that time) which had these job terminals (win95 boxes connected to the internet through a fiber connection) for people to use when looking for jobs.
Apparently they disabled basically all keystrokes while the application ran so we could only use a trackball to navigate the job board web site and print.
I never figured out how to just enable keystrokes again so I just unplugged the power cord, booted up in safe mode and edited autoexec.bat and uncommented the line for the application to autorun on windows boot up and rebooted. Free fiber internet and a lot of IRC for weeks to come!
However one of the librarians came up to me one day and asked "aren't you a little too young to be looking for a job?" and I was just joking and replied "yeah well, it's rough times you know". She looked concern and then looked at the screen and said something like "What's your name? I don't think you're allowed to do that... I'm going to have to tell you to get up and leave now".
I was indefinitely banned from using the computers and job terminals.