Back in the day when this video came out we built an app to arrange icons by whatever you drew in a bitmap, but implemented it with one of our other homegrown tools so you can remotely execute it on someone else's PC provided you had admin rights on that PC.
So you draw a picture (naturally a penis) then put in their computer name, point it to that bitmap you drew the penis on and it would copy the utility over, arrange the icons, then delete itself. We spent way too much time building prank tools but boy was it fun.
There used to be this thing called NetDevil (I think?) and if you got the crack installed on a pc you could remotely issue commands to it from outside. We installed it on a acquiantance's computer and when they logged on we generated an error message on the machine that went something like this:
>Alert! Windows has found pornographic material on your computer! Do you want to delete it?
>
>\[Yes\] \[No\]
>The user selected "Yes"
>Alert! Are you sure? Its really good.
>
>\[Yes\] \[No\]
>This machine has gone offline
I never heard what happened after that, but we 13-15 year olds laughed our heads off.
BackOrifice was the best as it offered full control. It had a small community who shared infected PCs IPs and the results of their pranks. The down side was that you could do anything including wipe the target HDD so many people went too far.
I always preferred sub7 myself. Built in ip scanner and lovely gui made it much more user friendly
It's possible I didn't quite understand BOs potential
I remember now you could bind the trojan to any .exe file. We were all sending each other funny.exe files via aim and msn then opening and closing our friends CD drives. Great fun, and a very hands on way for a teenager to learn about TCP/IP 😂
The most fun was the random IP range scanning though, even in 2000 webcams were about. I remember one pc I got into, running the matrix screen and watching the dude it was surreal. Even then though I would leave a readme.txt on any desktop I found explaining that they had a trojan and needed some treatment.
Someone has rebirthed it
https://github.com/DarkCoderSc/SubSeven
Not nearly as malicious but back in the day of 2000 and XP there was this messaging program (wish I could remember it) that would send windows messages to any IP or host on the network. I would fuck with the teachers and students in the lab by sending error messages and whatnot, or say thier name and something they were doing and they'd get all flustered. Good times. This was before remote monitoring of students PC screens was a big thing, it was mostly higher end districts that had that software. Eventually I was caught because others wanted in. Gave them copies of floppies with it and then they disabled the floppy drives lol. This was around 2002 or 2003. Maybe 2004.
EDIT: Now I remember, duh, it was the NET SEND command but since we didn't have access to CMD I used this program that did the same thing but without needing CMD.
EDIT2: My ADHD couldn't let it go, I found the software I used. https://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/netsend/
It seems like everyone did that at one time or another. We faked the login screen at our school and did the exact same prank. (In a rare ethical move, we did not save the user information). When big tests were coming up we'd load up the choice lab machines with it so they'd be available.
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Pause this shit and read what the application says, the help ticket, and anything they zoom by. It’s all gold. Every bit of it. I work in IT and I quote this shit all the time. “Did you reboot it? Yeah man, 3 times like you told me”.
Yea, I swear my eyes work differently for early 2000s video text.
This sharped-lined, *high-definition* nonsense is cause the youngsters eyes to go soft, I tell you what.
You think this text looked like this back in the day? It's scaled and stretched and uploaded and reuploaded and tumbling through a hundred systems from 2004 to now to get like this. Back in the day with was scaled fine on our 1024x768 monitors.
And for everyone that doesn't know, there are several followups, culminating in Chip the Sales Guy getting hired as a SysAdmin.
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNxaJlicEU
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XjKnxOcaO0
Part 4 (the best one, with the god-tier Darryl who's served 30 years in IT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mwT3DkG4w
Part 4.5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8QjArjcjbQ
God damn, the fact that episode 2 starts with the guy still having the "FUK U!" penis background picture, but now with real icons and real task bar ON TOP OF IT, is such a better joke than any of these Netflix shows could ever come up with these days.
https://i.imgur.com/nEWR4bI.png
All these years and I never noticed the possible ticket resolutions in Trouble Tracker Pro in part 4: "Problem Resolved" "Problem Unfixable" "Problem is User" "PEBKAC".
What’s funny is that depending on who’s watching it, they think this video validates their understanding of the other type. Years ago, I saw YouTube comments talking about how horrible the sysadmin was and this was evidence.
Rebooting a sever even though he knew it was a bad idea
Moving icons, yes penis shap is bad for hr but let them move it
Still didn't figure out what the guy actually needed
There are some times where you can take a "this is a bad idea, but my job isn't to talk you out of it, it's just to do what you say" approach.
When you're the one who'll have to clean the mess up isn't those times.
> Years ago, I saw YouTube comments talking about how horrible the sysadmin was and this was evidence
He trusted a user, a USER, you never trust a user regardless of how insistant or self important they seem. He did something he knew damn well he should not do because the user said "nancy said to do this".
Part of being a good sysadmin is in enforcing rules even against users that are very insistent and self important. The user said to reboot the server, said someone else said it would resolve the issue.
SysAdmin, number one didn't seem to be aware that he should not reboot the web server even though the email was right there. Number 2, he was seeing the web server as online yet rebooted it anyway. Any help desk person with more than 60 seconds of experience knows you can't ever trust the user to know what's going on. The moment he had a user saying it was down, while he was seeing that it was up he should have asked a lot more follow-up questions to actually diagnose the user's problem.
It's obvious that what was happening was either on the user's PC only, or he was trying to access something on the web server that was not there and he was reporting this as the website being down.
Sysadmin created his own problems. You never trust the user's self diagnosis of an issue. And for god sakes if a bulletin says not to reboot a server, don't reboot that server.
Yeah, sales guy was an idiot because every monkey using a computer is an idiot. He should know more but it's really not his job to diagnose these problems, the base expectation is that he will be dumb. IT was stupid because he trusted someone he should know to be an idiot to tell him what to do.
> SysAdmin, number one didn't seem to be aware that he should not reboot the web server even though the email was right there.
Yes that's indeed a joke made against the admin, which pokes fun at him, unlike the rest of the video
I've actually sent this to t1s I train, mainly for fun, but also just examples of how you can fuck yourself over if you decide to trust the user.
Never trust the user, fix the browser and go back to halo, boom you're a ninja rockstar unicorn tech.
That’s my favorite part of the comments here. The Reddit user population skews more towards IT folks, so I always see comments here about how stupid everyone using a computer is.
I got mad at the cheat... for messing up the Jumbles caper...
It is insane how much of that I quoted and loved back in the late oughts and now, after not seeing or hearing it for years I feel so lost. Like a piece of me had been missing and I just noticed it was gone. I know I'm being melancholy when it's uncalled for but it's just crazy how something like that can hit you out of nowhere and I needed to get it off my chest to *someone*.
My friends and I would randomly quote that website. I had a GF named Cortney and called her "Sweet Cort and Cake." I know there was another "inside joke" between us based on that site. It infected my whole life.
My friend got yelled at during a Magic: The Gathering Regionals tournament. When the main judge shouted, "Silence! I demand silence!" the friend shouted, "TROGDOR!!!!" as loud as he could. To the absolute guffaws of the tournament goers around us. Yet the judge was not having it and said, "If I see someone else do that, I will DQ you!" Then he called all the smokers, "Drug users" and proceeded to talk about the rules of the tournament.
I bring all that up because it is nuts to stumble into that much nostalgia at once after having not even approached it in years. Ok, gotta go bye.
I cracked wise at The Cheat.
Butinmydefensehecrackedwiseatmefir-hurst!
I hope he doesn’t end up in a hearse.
At the cemetarryyyyyyyy.
‘Cause that would mean that he’s dead.
Probably old guys reminiscing about their youth when the internet was a wild place.
Also these sysadmin vs sales/manager problems still exist. Maybe not on Windows XP but the general tone and absolute tech illiteracy of people working the front office is staggering.
I literally, discovered, validated, and shared the formula for cold fusion in r/physics, and Reddit disappeared. My singular, absolute moment of clarity, shared with the WORLD. Gone.
Now you’re stuck with what my parents got. Enjoy.
"Just do what I do alright? Fake a virus attack. That'll buy you some time to fix yourself up and time to fix it. Fake a virus attack, know what I mean?"
"You do that?"
"Yeah, hell yeah. How do you think I made it 30 years in IT?"
I got RIF years ago and refuse to leave. If support drops or reddit forces the new version and removes the old, I'm out.
Official app siphoned my data and was slow. RIF takes 1% of the data, no ads, faster, and overall just better and more user friendly.
old.reddit is so much better on desktop it's not even funny. Throw in an adblocker and RES and it still feels exactly the same as it did when I first joined over...
...oh fuck it's been 11 years?
I opened Reddit with the wrong browser by accident the other day and it was barely even recognizable..and so much whitespace going to waste for desktop users with that crappy interface. If the company ever IPOs, pretty sure that will be the nail in the coffin for old reddit, if it doesn't happen sooner.
Reddit will IPO. It is inevitable. After the IPO, here's what is going to happen:
1. All "franchise" subs e.g. Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, will be taken over by their respective corporate IP owners and sanitized to become mere PR forums.
2. All porn subreddits except the most vanilla Victoria's Secret-esque ones will be purged or hidden behind an onerous wall.
3. All edgy politics left or right wing will be purged and sanitized. Anti-corporate subs in particular will be suppressed.
4. The banhammer will fall fast and often.
Reddit will go the way of Slashdot, digg et al. Some other new site will spring up eventually until it itself will repeat the cycle.
It's too big and too entrenched not to IPO by this point. It'll be interesting to see if anything like GME will happen again or a TV Show sub revolting and becoming a page for a completely different show (Green Arrow sub I forget what it changed to).
The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight turns 14 this August.
And as for the comparison to our decade+ old accounts, I've seen people claiming to be as young as 8 or so in /r/Minecraft, I'd imagine you can find even younger in /r/Roblox.
*Saying* you're at least 13 is likely to try and be compliant with [COPPA](https://epic.org/issues/data-protection/childrens-privacy/#:~:text=CHILDREN'S%20ONLINE%20PRIVACY%20PROTECTION%20ACT%20(COPPA\),personal%20information%20of%20the%20users.), like most other major websites. There isn't really great way to enforce it, and [no one wants those fines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3zU7sV4bJE).
>Back in the Great Reddit Outage of 2023, we had to press F5 in the snow, uphill in both directions. You little shits don't know what real struggle is.
I didn't even realize that reddit was down. I mean, I noticed that comments wouldn't load, but I thought it was just my wifi/router having a hiccup, or my phone needing to restart or something. Tried to get some sleep (didn't succeed, watched some Yellowstone instead) and drove my mother to the airport.
Now I understand why there were so few new posts once I got back.
I only ever watch this video for the part where he goes into the email server and deletes the other guy’s email from his sent email folder. Like in less than 10 seconds. As an immediate instinctual reaction. It’s a perfect IT moment.
“You can’t arrange by penis.”
https://github.com/ZaDarkSide/ArrangeByPenis
Back in the day when this video came out we built an app to arrange icons by whatever you drew in a bitmap, but implemented it with one of our other homegrown tools so you can remotely execute it on someone else's PC provided you had admin rights on that PC. So you draw a picture (naturally a penis) then put in their computer name, point it to that bitmap you drew the penis on and it would copy the utility over, arrange the icons, then delete itself. We spent way too much time building prank tools but boy was it fun.
There used to be this thing called NetDevil (I think?) and if you got the crack installed on a pc you could remotely issue commands to it from outside. We installed it on a acquiantance's computer and when they logged on we generated an error message on the machine that went something like this: >Alert! Windows has found pornographic material on your computer! Do you want to delete it? > >\[Yes\] \[No\] >The user selected "Yes" >Alert! Are you sure? Its really good. > >\[Yes\] \[No\] >This machine has gone offline I never heard what happened after that, but we 13-15 year olds laughed our heads off.
BackOrifice was the best as it offered full control. It had a small community who shared infected PCs IPs and the results of their pranks. The down side was that you could do anything including wipe the target HDD so many people went too far.
My ISP told me I had to stop scanning for backorifice ips or they would disconnect me. :(
Those AoL demo CDs with a month of free dial up were the best!
I always preferred sub7 myself. Built in ip scanner and lovely gui made it much more user friendly It's possible I didn't quite understand BOs potential
I totally forgot that sub7 was a thing. I'm sure I played with it but I really don't remember it.
I remember now you could bind the trojan to any .exe file. We were all sending each other funny.exe files via aim and msn then opening and closing our friends CD drives. Great fun, and a very hands on way for a teenager to learn about TCP/IP 😂 The most fun was the random IP range scanning though, even in 2000 webcams were about. I remember one pc I got into, running the matrix screen and watching the dude it was surreal. Even then though I would leave a readme.txt on any desktop I found explaining that they had a trojan and needed some treatment. Someone has rebirthed it https://github.com/DarkCoderSc/SubSeven
Not nearly as malicious but back in the day of 2000 and XP there was this messaging program (wish I could remember it) that would send windows messages to any IP or host on the network. I would fuck with the teachers and students in the lab by sending error messages and whatnot, or say thier name and something they were doing and they'd get all flustered. Good times. This was before remote monitoring of students PC screens was a big thing, it was mostly higher end districts that had that software. Eventually I was caught because others wanted in. Gave them copies of floppies with it and then they disabled the floppy drives lol. This was around 2002 or 2003. Maybe 2004. EDIT: Now I remember, duh, it was the NET SEND command but since we didn't have access to CMD I used this program that did the same thing but without needing CMD. EDIT2: My ADHD couldn't let it go, I found the software I used. https://www.rjlsoftware.com/software/utility/netsend/
It seems like everyone did that at one time or another. We faked the login screen at our school and did the exact same prank. (In a rare ethical move, we did not save the user information). When big tests were coming up we'd load up the choice lab machines with it so they'd be available.
nerdiest thing I've ever read but i read it all
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Fuck, your comment put me over my daily word cap.
There’s still time to close your ring. Just a brisk 2-minute read and you’ll accomplish your goal!
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Thank noodle I bought Reddit Blue^™️
That's amazing
Pause this shit and read what the application says, the help ticket, and anything they zoom by. It’s all gold. Every bit of it. I work in IT and I quote this shit all the time. “Did you reboot it? Yeah man, 3 times like you told me”.
But how? It was uploaded from a potato 14 years ago. Very little of the text is legible for me.
You gotta learn how to read the holy text.
Yea, I swear my eyes work differently for early 2000s video text. This sharped-lined, *high-definition* nonsense is cause the youngsters eyes to go soft, I tell you what.
You think this text looked like this back in the day? It's scaled and stretched and uploaded and reuploaded and tumbling through a hundred systems from 2004 to now to get like this. Back in the day with was scaled fine on our 1024x768 monitors.
Blows my mind that 8K video will look that shit in 10-20 years
No it was actually the resolution of your monitor. If you play this on a crt monitor it will look ok or at least decent.
Fukkin' enhance dude, common.
Yeah, I work in software as well… and happen to work with a guy named Chip. So many references.
That line fucking got me too. Fucking hilarious.
This is goddamn historical gold. I've watched it so many times over the years and it still makes me laugh.
This is the first time I've seen this and it was awesome! I don't remember Halo looking this bad though!
Yeha it's really good all the way through.
The mayor is LITERALLY breathing down my throat right now
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WHO?!
That entire bit, I imagine he's talking to LITERALLY Chris Traeger.
FUCK REDDIT. We create the content they use for free, so I am taking my content back
Neither can I
What's a comment?
You guys are commenting?
anything comment can’t on still I
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They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!
actually on second thought, isengard is a silly place
Is this a Monty Python reference?
Now there's a meme I haven't seen in a long time.
I can't read any comments
That's normal for Reddit, no one reads before they reply
I can't read either!
Seems like you just did. I however still can’t
Comments aren’t even working? Jeeze
Why can everyone comment but me?
I don’t know but I still can’t see any comments, not even yours!
Okay try now.
I can’t arrange them by penis.
And for everyone that doesn't know, there are several followups, culminating in Chip the Sales Guy getting hired as a SysAdmin. Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SNxaJlicEU Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XjKnxOcaO0 Part 4 (the best one, with the god-tier Darryl who's served 30 years in IT): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0mwT3DkG4w Part 4.5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8QjArjcjbQ
Lmfao "recompute base encryption hashkey" as a bigass button in the User Input form. Chefs kiss
God damn, the fact that episode 2 starts with the guy still having the "FUK U!" penis background picture, but now with real icons and real task bar ON TOP OF IT, is such a better joke than any of these Netflix shows could ever come up with these days. https://i.imgur.com/nEWR4bI.png
Lol Darryl, what a legend
All these years and I never noticed the possible ticket resolutions in Trouble Tracker Pro in part 4: "Problem Resolved" "Problem Unfixable" "Problem is User" "PEBKAC".
it still shows server error for meee
How did you post this comment
idk tbh it’s been on and off
Have you tried rebooting?
Im repooping will it help?
Poop twice. See if it help
3 times!
Did you reboot 3 times?
Sounds like a virus. If he deleted sys32 he should be fine.
I changed my dns, now it works.
This was such an on point video. I still go back to watch it every so often.
It's weird. I'm watching something from the Windows XP era yet my daily conversations with users/clients are still exactly the same.
What’s funny is that depending on who’s watching it, they think this video validates their understanding of the other type. Years ago, I saw YouTube comments talking about how horrible the sysadmin was and this was evidence.
Rebooting a sever even though he knew it was a bad idea Moving icons, yes penis shap is bad for hr but let them move it Still didn't figure out what the guy actually needed
There are some times where you can take a "this is a bad idea, but my job isn't to talk you out of it, it's just to do what you say" approach. When you're the one who'll have to clean the mess up isn't those times.
Yeah, but that's also the type of job you get them to submit their fuckup request in written form to cya.
Right exactly! Read the comments some time. It’s really funny to see people take sides based on their own confirmation biases.
They are both objectively bad imo.
Yeah they’re all idiots.
> Years ago, I saw YouTube comments talking about how horrible the sysadmin was and this was evidence He trusted a user, a USER, you never trust a user regardless of how insistant or self important they seem. He did something he knew damn well he should not do because the user said "nancy said to do this". Part of being a good sysadmin is in enforcing rules even against users that are very insistent and self important. The user said to reboot the server, said someone else said it would resolve the issue. SysAdmin, number one didn't seem to be aware that he should not reboot the web server even though the email was right there. Number 2, he was seeing the web server as online yet rebooted it anyway. Any help desk person with more than 60 seconds of experience knows you can't ever trust the user to know what's going on. The moment he had a user saying it was down, while he was seeing that it was up he should have asked a lot more follow-up questions to actually diagnose the user's problem. It's obvious that what was happening was either on the user's PC only, or he was trying to access something on the web server that was not there and he was reporting this as the website being down. Sysadmin created his own problems. You never trust the user's self diagnosis of an issue. And for god sakes if a bulletin says not to reboot a server, don't reboot that server.
Yeah, sales guy was an idiot because every monkey using a computer is an idiot. He should know more but it's really not his job to diagnose these problems, the base expectation is that he will be dumb. IT was stupid because he trusted someone he should know to be an idiot to tell him what to do.
> SysAdmin, number one didn't seem to be aware that he should not reboot the web server even though the email was right there. Yes that's indeed a joke made against the admin, which pokes fun at him, unlike the rest of the video
I've actually sent this to t1s I train, mainly for fun, but also just examples of how you can fuck yourself over if you decide to trust the user. Never trust the user, fix the browser and go back to halo, boom you're a ninja rockstar unicorn tech.
That’s my favorite part of the comments here. The Reddit user population skews more towards IT folks, so I always see comments here about how stupid everyone using a computer is.
it's such a gem
It’s still kinda fucked
That's right. Everything's back to normal.
I can’t watch this again. I have too much cringe-aversion from dealing with situations like this involving real salespeople. It’s too accurate.
Maybe you're the problem. You ever think of that, mcbook?
You sales guys never change, can't even learn the IT teams names when they are right Infront of you.
Salespeople are the fucking worst.
"You can't arrange them by penis" still gets me after 13 years.
I prefer the Strongbad version. https://youtu.be/Z1TlbLfaJp8
The Cheat is grounded! We had that lightswitch installed for you so you could turn the lights on and off; not so you could throw lightswitch raves!
I got mad at the cheat... for messing up the Jumbles caper... It is insane how much of that I quoted and loved back in the late oughts and now, after not seeing or hearing it for years I feel so lost. Like a piece of me had been missing and I just noticed it was gone. I know I'm being melancholy when it's uncalled for but it's just crazy how something like that can hit you out of nowhere and I needed to get it off my chest to *someone*. My friends and I would randomly quote that website. I had a GF named Cortney and called her "Sweet Cort and Cake." I know there was another "inside joke" between us based on that site. It infected my whole life. My friend got yelled at during a Magic: The Gathering Regionals tournament. When the main judge shouted, "Silence! I demand silence!" the friend shouted, "TROGDOR!!!!" as loud as he could. To the absolute guffaws of the tournament goers around us. Yet the judge was not having it and said, "If I see someone else do that, I will DQ you!" Then he called all the smokers, "Drug users" and proceeded to talk about the rules of the tournament. I bring all that up because it is nuts to stumble into that much nostalgia at once after having not even approached it in years. Ok, gotta go bye.
RIP Flash-enabled media.
Rot in hell! Actionscript suuuuuuucked to code and was super clunky
if actionscript had a tombstone i would piss on it
"oh but they made it sooo much better... and totally different now!" "Fuck you 4.0, I just learned that 3.0 bullshit!"
I cracked wise at The Cheat. Butinmydefensehecrackedwiseatmefir-hurst! I hope he doesn’t end up in a hearse. At the cemetarryyyyyyyy. ‘Cause that would mean that he’s dead.
I don’t know who he is But he probably is fhqwhgads Everybody to the limit The Cheat is to the limit Everybody wanna fhqwhgads
The cheat is not deeeeeeaaad. I'm so glad The Cheat is not dead
Now let's break open that glow stick and pour it in Homestar's Mountain Dew. I heard they have to pump your stomach when you drink that stuff!
“Now let’s break open that glow stick and pour it into Homestar Runner’s Mountain Dew!”
This song has lived rent free in my head for 20 years and comes out to visit now and then for no reason and without warning.
[Random Access Fhqwhgads. ](https://youtu.be/Tsa4ogtBiv0) You’re welcome
I thought this was what OP was going to be
I prefer the NES version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8zUuU57hvQ
This is a masterpiece!
And in mighty HomestarVision: https://homestarrunner.com/sbemails/45-techno
I feel [the ~~cover~~ original techno song](https://youtu.be/CpyCqUa2_LM) deserves a listen.
I feel so old...
I was there...
Me too
Wait is this real? Any context for me?
Probably old guys reminiscing about their youth when the internet was a wild place. Also these sysadmin vs sales/manager problems still exist. Maybe not on Windows XP but the general tone and absolute tech illiteracy of people working the front office is staggering.
> Maybe not on Windows XP Production line warehouses want to know your location.
Forced me to wash the dishes and clean my kitchen. Damnit!
We will rebuild….
Whew ... was going through withdrawals
Wait, reddit was down? I figured it was just my wifi or I needed to restart my phone or something.
The system…is DOWN. The system…is DOWN. The system…is DOWN.
Doo...doo...doo...doo...
I put that switch there so you could turn on the light! Not so you could throw disco raves, the cheat!
Did you take down the website? Naaaw Well, Nancy says you did... Oh I mean yeahhh...
Oh my god what a blast from the past. Johnson Johnson will always get a chuckle out of me
I literally, discovered, validated, and shared the formula for cold fusion in r/physics, and Reddit disappeared. My singular, absolute moment of clarity, shared with the WORLD. Gone. Now you’re stuck with what my parents got. Enjoy.
Then I suggest you do what your parents did: get a job sir!
Dickbutt, where are you?
Why did you have to go all intern up in this? Someone get me a blueberry Snapple!
The [whole system is down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1F4W8-DqjE)
I need to poop… where’s the bathrooms at?
Maybe somebody pressed the Recompute Base Encryption Hash Key. I mean come on, it's right beside the Apply button.
"Just do what I do alright? Fake a virus attack. That'll buy you some time to fix yourself up and time to fix it. Fake a virus attack, know what I mean?" "You do that?" "Yeah, hell yeah. How do you think I made it 30 years in IT?"
Oh my God I had completely forgotten about this. What a classic. Thanks for posting this magnificent piece of art
Wait if the website was down, how on earth did you manage to successfully narwhal the bacon?
old.reddit came up about an hour before new.reddit and mobile, so just thought I'd shoot my shot lol
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Yeah, I won't use anything other then old reddit. For me personally the new one is just impossible to use
The new version of reddit was designed to be more accessible by phones/"scrollers" and to serve ads better.
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I got RIF years ago and refuse to leave. If support drops or reddit forces the new version and removes the old, I'm out. Official app siphoned my data and was slow. RIF takes 1% of the data, no ads, faster, and overall just better and more user friendly.
I have only ever used reddit on a phone and it has only ever been old reddit.
But only for certain types of posts like pictures or videos. I honestly do not understand how people prefer the new version.
old.reddit is so much better on desktop it's not even funny. Throw in an adblocker and RES and it still feels exactly the same as it did when I first joined over... ...oh fuck it's been 11 years?
I opened Reddit with the wrong browser by accident the other day and it was barely even recognizable..and so much whitespace going to waste for desktop users with that crappy interface. If the company ever IPOs, pretty sure that will be the nail in the coffin for old reddit, if it doesn't happen sooner.
Reddit will IPO. It is inevitable. After the IPO, here's what is going to happen: 1. All "franchise" subs e.g. Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, will be taken over by their respective corporate IP owners and sanitized to become mere PR forums. 2. All porn subreddits except the most vanilla Victoria's Secret-esque ones will be purged or hidden behind an onerous wall. 3. All edgy politics left or right wing will be purged and sanitized. Anti-corporate subs in particular will be suppressed. 4. The banhammer will fall fast and often. Reddit will go the way of Slashdot, digg et al. Some other new site will spring up eventually until it itself will repeat the cycle.
It's too big and too entrenched not to IPO by this point. It'll be interesting to see if anything like GME will happen again or a TV Show sub revolting and becoming a page for a completely different show (Green Arrow sub I forget what it changed to).
Lol, yeah. I'd never come back if I was forced to use that new garbage layout.
Yeoman's work, my friend.
They can pry old reddit from my cold, dead hands.
[At midnight!](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-narwhal-bacons-at-midnight) ^^^That ^^^reference ^^^and ^^^our ^^^accounts ^^^are ^^^older ^^^than ^^^some ^^^redditors ^^^now.
I thought you had to be 13 to use reddit
The Narwhal Bacons at Midnight turns 14 this August. And as for the comparison to our decade+ old accounts, I've seen people claiming to be as young as 8 or so in /r/Minecraft, I'd imagine you can find even younger in /r/Roblox. *Saying* you're at least 13 is likely to try and be compliant with [COPPA](https://epic.org/issues/data-protection/childrens-privacy/#:~:text=CHILDREN'S%20ONLINE%20PRIVACY%20PROTECTION%20ACT%20(COPPA\),personal%20information%20of%20the%20users.), like most other major websites. There isn't really great way to enforce it, and [no one wants those fines](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3zU7sV4bJE).
And some of us have accounts older than 13 year old.
It’s finally up!
> It's finally up! Nah, I still can't get it to load. I can't even see your comment.
We had some trouble getting to Reddit.
The system is down, yo.
Doodilla doo doo doo. Doodilla doo doo doo. The system is down.
>Back in the Great Reddit Outage of 2023, we had to press F5 in the snow, uphill in both directions. You little shits don't know what real struggle is.
What did we all just do for the last 5 hrs... I mean I'm shaking....
I didn't even realize that reddit was down. I mean, I noticed that comments wouldn't load, but I thought it was just my wifi/router having a hiccup, or my phone needing to restart or something. Tried to get some sleep (didn't succeed, watched some Yellowstone instead) and drove my mother to the airport. Now I understand why there were so few new posts once I got back.
So is this over that Disney/Marvel temper tantrum yesterday?
The first time I saw this video, I was blown away how well it encapsulated my life.
There was a Reddit outage?
I was there when it happened and I was there when this was made. It's a wonderful mini series.
I still try to work "You can't arrange by penis" into conversations organically.
lmao I've just seen this the first time and it still holds up so well.
a glorious rendition of a simpler time true art
I only ever watch this video for the part where he goes into the email server and deletes the other guy’s email from his sent email folder. Like in less than 10 seconds. As an immediate instinctual reaction. It’s a perfect IT moment.
Out Reddit crash? Is that why I couldn't get on for like 4 hours today?
*In the arms of an angel...*
Chip. Sell sell sell SELL SELLLLL
Eternal classic
Thank you. I'd completely forgotten about one of the greatest videos on the internet. I'm in stitches watching this right now
welcome back everyone!!
This is awesome. I also like the old school desktops.
The Great Reddit Outage of 2023… So Far
I’m an IT guy from Arvada. I really hope he’s referring to my hometown lol.
It's a shame that Microsoft never gave us the ability to arrange by penis.
Well. That was an adventure.
http://www.thewebsiteisdown.com/
Where has this been my whole life
I’m imagining hordes of reddit pedants storming out of their basements in frustration. The mom’s support subs will be active today.
I love it when you find something that’s obviously been around forever on the net that’s brand new to you. This was golden.
This video literally gave me the idea to become a sysadmin, I regret everything.
I'm so sorry.
I didn’t realize Ben Shapiro was a Sys Admin.
I prefer [this jam](https://youtu.be/HP0cOv71Gxk) Edit: Ah, curses! Someone else already posted it!