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I still remember seeing this happen on TV in high school, they put it on two of those old tellies for several science classes to watch (I would have been 14 then).

Cable and Wireless is full of old grey farts anyway (it only deals with corporate customers, govt and the feds and ceased all its small business customers as they “weren’t worth the money”)

in the 90s, Thus took over what was formerly a decent ISP (Demon) what stood up for free speech (although was starting to have shit customer service and reliability)

it then turned it into a more corporate-based ISP – and now they are going to be part of a big badly managed UK corporate so perhaps this marketing “initiative” isn’t too far off the mark for the whole fucking internet….

they made a really big show about it as there was a science teacher on board – cue (after the shuttle blew up in front of everyones eyes) about 60 kids all looking fairly shocked – well most of them, although me and my mates didn’t openly laugh (or we would have got trouble/detention etc) we were cynical about the whole thing right from the start (yes, I had a cynical view of the world back then and is persists to this day…)

as for computers, my high school was well equipped and had about 16 of those BBC B’s, all on a network. In 1987 I put a trojan onto that network so a group of us could send messages to each other and take over other peoples computers :laugh_at:

would have been a mixture of nail varnish and the insides of red matches (friction from drive head = kaboom).

Some Yanks used this tactic to sabotage their rivals uni work during the 90s, or just get back at the school (better than the more recent practice of shooting up the place I suppose)

However, I’m slightly older and there was only one computer with a 3.5″ disk drive at that time they got in 1989 (it would have been harder to make this tactic work with 5.25″ disks) and the last thing we wanted to do was blow it up as it had a useful scanner and colour printer otherwise hard to at in those days – this was just perfect for making fake ID’s :laugh_at: