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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I was in college during the years leading up to y2k and supported myself at the time getting IT infrastructure ready. Some friends and I decided to write a "virus" that, on bootup, checks to see if the current date is in the first week of January 2000 and if it is and a backup of the fonts is not found (so it'll only run once) then it'll back up your fonts and alter the originals to replace the y character with the k. This affected everything system wide.

That created more chaos than anticipated.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 week ago (1 children)

kou know, to this dak i alwask wondered whk my computer alwaks did that. kou wilk rascal, kou!

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m sorry, I don’t speak Dutch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

i assume that translates to "you pay half" :P

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

y2k

replace the y character with the k

I see what you did there

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm dumb and/or stoned. Can you explain please? Shk gkpsk, slklk, sprklk, trkst bk mk crkpt?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Koure missing an a in sparklk

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

swaps Y and K keys.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

We used to edit the system keymapping on the school Macintoshes and duplicate a letter somewhere, and then we’d do the same to a second machine using the letter that the first could no longer type; then we’d switch the physical keycaps

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

sounds like something I'd see on dancoot1