2006 was 18 years ago, not 10.
No it wasnt.
It was only a couple of years ago.
stop lying
STOP LYING 😭
People would click God damn anything two decades ago
Now they’ll install any random fucking app a company tells them to install. Oh, you want to see a menu at the restaurant? Just install this app. How about fuck you?
Modern mobile OS’ and apps are quite strictly sandboxed so, with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store and Apple Store, you can reasonably safely install random crap and uninstall it later. It’s a different realm from running random binary executables.
with reasonable vetting like Google Play Store
Seemingly innocuous Play store apps get found to be viruses all the time, most recent in my memory being a few barcode scanner apps, farthest back in my memory being flashlight apps back before android did it natively, but there’s been more over the years. Trusting apps “because play store” is horrible practice.
Yep, back in the very early 2000s, this was something we did at school to jokke around.
The cupholder joke was neat, it had a nice official looking UI with the Coca Cola logo, and a corporate style promotion text, there was a button to click to accept the “gift”, and only then did the CD drive open.
Then I remember running a joke program that would make the startbutton jump around on the screen.
This reminds me of a similar joke from AIM days.
You could tell your friends that you were going to “hack” their computer.
They would of course not believe you.
You would then send them a few images that looked hackery and a few that were broken.
The broken images were actually a link to “A:/fakeimage.jpg” and “D:/fakeimage.jpg”.
This would cause A drive, the common “floppy” drive, to turn on and look for a fake image for a few seconds. As I recall this worked even with no disk inserted and made a bunch of noise.
Similarly the D drive, the common CD drive, would spin up, also making noise. I believe this did require a disk in the drive, but at the time everyone always had some form of disk in the drive.
What you had really done was nothing, but making your friends computer make noise unexpectedly was still funny.
That gag is a bit older than just 2006. I remember it circulating the warez scene back in 1998. Might even be older. Truly antique!
I was working in my college’s computer lab in '97/'98 and this was old then. The freshmen kept falling for it every year!
I liked the random.exe that unmuted your computer, turned the volume to max, and said “hey everybody, I’m downloading pornography!”. My friend got a big kick out of that when he ran it at work. …ah, those were the days…
The thought of clicking on some random.exe hurt me a little inside…
So much trust, or ignorance, or both lol
How do you think we got to this level of distrust?
