I wish my web server were in the corner of my room

Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by rozap on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @02:20PM (#33166957)

I hosted a phpbb board out of my room during high school. Our school board had just done the "one laptop per kid" thing, and the machines were all locked down and most of the fun sites were blocked, but not my site, because IT didn't know about it. So everyone went there to chat. We had an IRC server. People became friends that otherwise were in different cliques irl.

One time we were supposed to be doing work during class, but everyone was on IRC chatting. The classroom was completely silent. Somebody wrote "somebody say penis" in the channel and the whole classroom started laughing at the same time, for seemingly no reason. The teacher was confused, it was a good time to be a 15 year old dorking around with computers.

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by unity1001 on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:12PM (#33168636)

> "somebody say penis"

Edgy...

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by yaddaor on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:23PM (#33168761)

Nothing "edgy" about kids finding words that describe genitals funny. It is like that everywhere on the planet and it always has been.

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by rozap on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @06:45PM (#33170239)

we were like 14 my friend

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by darknavi on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @09:33PM (#33171650)

The "who can say penis the loudest without getting in trouble" game was very much a thing with my friends in middle school.

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by yurishimo on Wednesday October 12, 2022 @07:57AM (#33175656)

I graduated HS in 2012. There were a few guys who would literally yell the word "penis" at the top of their lungs in class. I now recall a time when one kid was working in a group with one of these troublemakers, and the problematic one raised his voice to say, "Why are you drawing a picture of a penis 'John'?" when in fact John was merely working on his own part of the project.

Bunch of clowns :P

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Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room by gaws on Thursday October 13, 2022 @12:29PM (#33193252)

> We had an IRC server.

How long ago was this? You'd think the school had a strict filter on outside connections, especially to IRC servers.

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