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At one point you could just send a ton of <<<<<<< which caused some internal parser to slow down horribly and eventually crash

s/CON/CON

This looked to me like a useless sed substitution.

But, apparently, typing "{S /con/con" in an AOL chat blue-screened Windows participants that had their AOL sounds turned on.

http://mazur-archives.s3.amazonaws.com/aol-files/breaches/co... [AOL-Files.com] (2000)

I remember turning off hallway TVs in school with a visor handspring and an IR app.

I had an android tablet with an IR blaster in it (the Sony tablet s) and had endless fun putting Macs with the remote receiver to sleep. Hold down the play button like on an iPod and people’s laptops would just go to sleep while they were using them.