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RE: I guess I was always a geek...
Every time someone mentions BASIC, I'm sent back in time to my days as a student in highschool. I sat next to the intercom. It would make a tone to alert the teacher. The teacher would then walk up to it and speak to the office. I learned how to code the musical notes from a magazine I had. I'd sit there, make my computer make the exact same sound as the intercom, then watch the teacher get up, walk across the room, push the button and keep saying "Hello hello. Yes? Yes? Hello?" Nothing. Nobody home on the other end. He'd go sit down and I'd do it again.
LOL! I feel sorry for your teacher...
I also wish I had figured out something like that back then. XD We had Windows 3.1 computers in high school though...and they were massively outdated.
This was mid to late 90's. Windows 95 era, but we weren't even using windows 3.1. I remember setting reminder alarms that would go off at the same time for everyone, placing a message full of obscenities on every screen in the room. I think that was a feature that came with the word processing suite we used to use, though I could be mistaken. Nobody knew it was me. I was probably one of a handful of kids that actually had a computer at home, and knew how to use it. Everyone else was just confused.
LOL! You are so lucky you never got caught. That's something they'd probably act like was a really big deal...even if it wasn't.
All those kids thought they got hacked.
Poor stupid kids...
Though technically you kinda were doing unauthorized access...since you weren't authorized to do what you were doing to them.