Yep was one of these kids... From the very same period, removing 10base2 BNC terminators was also a fun thing to do. Both had the effect to infuriate the computer science teacher...
Thanks for the collection of all this...
(later it was the deadly loop on network hubs and tcpkill... all this is impossible now)
No, when I was in school no computer had a mouse except one Mac in my English class.
Yes, yes I do remember doing that. Not just at school. Use to do it to dad. When he was being annoying sometimes.
Today students pick keycaps off of keyboards and steal anything not tied down (so instead of just the ball, the entire mouse gets stolen). Once I heard a student ran off with an entire side panel of a computer
The keycaps thing is a huge problem now because of the widespread use of Chromebooks with butterfly switches. 9 times out of 10 if one of those caps is torn off, the switch is permanently damaged and the whole keyboard needs to be replaced.
I actually don't remember any of my school computers having ball mice. They all only got their computers in the late 90's and had optical mice by then.
But I can imagine; my high school was savage.
If that happened today, everyone would blame TikTok.
I 'member
TIL kids would steal these.
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