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Very helpful command it was for those, whose modem had to be rebooted daily back in the day: Have a cron-job open the tray, which in turn was placed strategically so that it would hit the reset button of the modem, then close the tray. And voilà; automatic reboot of the modem. Robotics at its finest!
In the early 2000s, only my rich friends had cell phones. My roommate and I both had accounts on each other's machines so we could telnet into them on the same local network.
We used to do this all the time to each other. It was funny to us 25 years ago. It's still funny now.
That is fantastic.