| [06-13 23:42] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: so a lot of isps killed support for it |
| [06-13 23:42] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: usenet is still around and hard to track on it |
| [06-13 23:43] | [Chat] | No: a lot of us used usenet posts to screw with people |
| [06-13 23:43] | [Chat] | No: I used IRC a lot in those days |
| [06-13 23:43] | [Chat] | No: and on linux, there's a symbolic link command |
| [06-13 23:43] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: yeah not as used much now |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: irc is still around but its not nearly as big |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | No: so if you wanted to crash people |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: us eot have like 10 or 20 netowkrs now ther onl a few |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | No: you would lm -s /dev/zero /home/user/boobies.gif |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: mirc was he big client |
| [06-13 23:44] | [Chat] | No: and then tell people to download it |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | No: mirc was way late to the game :) |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: now they make animated gifs that show 1 fram of a girl about ot raise shirt then a birght word |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: mirc was the popular cient near the middle to major peak |
| [06-13 23:45] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: mirc pretty much stoped and was rleased free i think now |
| [06-13 23:46] | [Chat] | No: basically the person would think they were downloading boobies.gif but instead were getting the endless stream of zeros from /dev/zero |
| [06-13 23:46] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: only irc clients i see an more are from lniux |
| [06-13 23:47] | [Chat] | No: I used to use ln -s /dev/null but that downloaded too quick to be real file after mnp5 compression became a thing on modems |
| [06-13 23:47] | [Chat] | Icewolfz: the /dev nll stuff is still used |
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