Times you fucked up

>>be me
who else would you be, idiot?

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>be 9
>dad works in advertising
>use his computer and see pic related
>think it's a really cool font
>transfer it from his computer to mine with a zip disk
>installation successful but the font doesn't show up in font list
>try to debug the issue by deleting every font except for mojo
>reboot
>system font is now mojo
>it doesn't look that good in non-antialiased 12px
>no idea how to go back
>too ashamed to tell my dad

i can't remember how i fixed the issue but fuck that was stupid
both computers in question were iMac G3s with Mac OS 9

>>58774058
He could be Geoffrey, from elementary school

>>58774044
>10 years old
>ransomware
How old are you now? 15?

>>58774166
How old are you? Not OP but ransomware has been around longer then the Bitcoin before it would ask you to pay for a fake antivirus to get rid of it

>>58774044

>be me
>want do download a youtube video
>have seen my dad doing this, just click next all the time
>toolbarz.jpg

When I was little I plugged my Macintosh monitor into my PC's sound card. Fucked the monitor's pins because the sound card's port melted

>>58774044
last time I installed linux I tried to dual boot but didn't have backups and ended up formatting the entire HDD on my laptop

BTRFS is predy gud tho

>>58774058
>be computer
>get bought on christmas for some underage human
>have no idea what the fuck he's doind
>he finds out how to connect to the internet
>itbegins.gif
>get infested with "smileys" and strange frontend modification
>kid downloads into me some audio files and human tiddies
>had enough of this
>let virus download a better virus
>system-level ransomware
>kid is very freaked out
>internet is dosconnected now
>he looks dumbfounded
>manages to download antivirus
>idiot kids gives me brain damage
>bootloop

>>58774232
wouldn't it just pretend to be FBI or IRS and ask you to pay a "fine"

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>>58774044
>First time building computer
>Everything turns on just fine
>Windows won't boot
>I didn't know back then that you had to reinstall Windows on a system change like that
>Think its a hard drive failure
>Some fucking forum says you can leave it in the freezer to try and fix a failed hard drive
>Do that and leave it there for a good 2 hours
>Take it out and remove the fucking condensation
>Still doesn't boot
>After a few weeks of just accepting that its dead I try to look it up one more time
>Someone recommends reinstalling Windows
>Do that
>It finally boots up
To this day I have no idea how that hard drive isn't fucking dead from what I did to it. Its currently in my server still running very well

>>58774522
Yes but not all of that involved encryption like all modern ransomware. Most of it just forced itself into fullscreen and did so on boot as well because they knew most people didn't know how to fix it anyway

>>58774524
I honestly laughed at this more then i should have

>be me
>open this thread

>>58774044
>writing updater for desktop app that pulls source files from github
>while testing, accidentally start debug instead of exporting a copy of the application
>run full update process on my source directory
>all the code is now the last version I pushed to github

Luckily I was able to get back some of the major changes I made, since the file I was working on was still cached in the text editor.

fucked up my 9800pro when i swapped cooler.
and couple years later some expensive RAM when i took of the heatsinks on those.

>>58774058
fuck off newfag

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>>58774044
>be 15
>early 2000s
>building my first computer
>1ghz AMD T-Bird cpu socket A
>abit motherboard
>put the cpu in the board without a heatsink and fan
>power on computer, I get the bios screen to pop up
>computer goes black
>troubleshoot for two days
>realize I burned out the chip by not putting the heatsink on
>RMA the cpu
>they give me a new one
>put the heatsink and fan on
>power it up
>everything works perfectly
>install windows 2000
>excellent computer that lasted me for several years
I still feel retarded for doing this but I was used to the old pentium chips that had only a heatsink at best, I don't know what I was thinking. I'm glad they rma'd my chip honestly, it cost a lot of money back in the day and I saved up for a really long time to build it.

>>58774524
the freezer trick works if it's a mechanical drive malfunctioning, but you're supposed to put it in a bag and then connect it and transfer your data asap. only works sometimes, not always or often for data recovery.

>on old hentai website
>popup comes up
>forget what it was, but just close out of it
>suddenly ants start crawling on the screen
>what
>slam laptop shut in panic, unplug, remove battery
>few minutes later open back up and look at it
>ants come back, desktop turns to blue background with a yellow 'alert' saying my computer is infected
>run norton because retarded child
>nothing found
>????
>freak out
>think hackers are going to come after me for some reason
>google it
>they tell me to delete certain files
>can't do shit to combat it, even deleting all associated files with it just caused it to come back on restart
>can't even change desktop background
>have to shamefully bring it to a computer repair shop

Wasn't a major fuckup but my only real time with a virus. Nothing was lost but I freaked the fuck out.

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>>58774166
He could have gotten AIDS from being a faggot:
>AIDS is considered to be an early example of a class of malware known as "ransomware".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(Trojan_horse)

>>58774044
>got my first laptop
>need to install OS
>done this before, piece of cake
>installing windows xp
>for some reason decided to pick not Quick format
>it takes so long to format HDD...
>fuckit.gif
>manually reboot
>HDD fails
>whatihavedone.gif

This is most retarded thing I did...

Set Windows folder as hidden once. And it couldn't boot. I wonder why, since the folder still exists and you can access it without any trouble.

>>58777199
Windows XP and earlier were prone to all sorts of stupid shit regarding folder attributes

>>58774044
> decided to try out ubuntu
> installed bootloader on /dev/sda1 where my beloved win7 was
> finished playing around with it abd rebooted
> there is no win7 in grub menu
> wtf.jpg
> go full banana and erase all partitions from disk
> install fresh win7
fuck loonix

>>58778384
>fuck loonix
No, fuck you for being stupid. I bet you pulled stupid shit like that on windows as well, because you're the type of dumbass that expects everything to "just werk lulz".

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>be 6
>that is 1991
>having a A500
>be a happy little shit playing Lotus, Stunt Racer and Batman
>one day the computer doesn't start
>too young and stupid to realize my father removed the rom while servicing another A500
>tried to fixed the thing.
>dropped a screwdriver onto the mobo, with the machine connected to the main and powered on.
>dank fumes

i ended shorting the power supply. nevertheless my father fixed it the next day but man it was a stupid call.

>>58778521
>nevertheless my father fixed it the next day
you mean he bought another one?

>>58778545
no, he replaced capacitors and other pieces and the computer was running again the next day.

need to ask him what exactly he replaced tho.

>eat 6 grams of magic mushrooms
>feelsbrettygud.swf
>decide to install AoE 2
>old-ass install cd doesn't work anymore
>download first torrent on KAT
>install the game
>instant paranoia right after that because realized it might have contained viruses
>unplug internet hose from NIC
>purge EVERYTHING
>install debian
And that's how I became a linux user.

>>58778653
>magic shrooms
>gateway to loonix

/thread

>>58775533
I miss when magazines were fun like the one in your picture

>>58775533
Only one gigahertz?

my first computer that was my own, and not a family computer was a windows ME Gateway machine. The first thing I did was delete system32 because it was using too much system resources.

I blame that event on me becoming a network engineer.

>be 10, tech illiterate
>using internet explorer 6
>somehow manage to hide address bar
>spend months only being able to use the search box on the ISP homepage

Idiot

>>58778715
I don't know if there even was a virus or if it was just a figment of my imagination, but in that moment I truly felt installing linux was the only right choice.

>>58774044
I, for one, miss smiley/cursor central and bonsai buddy.

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>>58778715
>>58778653
Funny, now that you mention it, I only used GUHNOOSLESHLEENUX on live CDs for repairs. I didn't start using it as my daily driver until about 2 months after trying LSD for the first time. That might be because I only stayed on Windows for muh gaems, and I lost most of my interest in gaems after getting fucked up on LSD.

>>58774504
kek

>be 8 year old me
>uncle gives me a bunch of CDs, mostly games
>get home, boot Windows 98
>pick that cool colorful CD with a drawning of a guy from the future on a hoverboard called "Drivers"
>yasletsgaem.tiff
>install it
>it asks me to restart
>do it
>PC doesn't boot anymore
I told my dad it stopped working on its on, he brought it to a repair shop and it was new in 3 days. I never touched that disk again and I probably still have it somewhere

>>58776417
Kek, I already did exactly the same. Lost that 80gb Samsung

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>>58781688
Holy shit, I found it

>>58778588
You're still in contact with your dad? Make sure you tell him you love him.

>>58781870
Are those tits on his knees?

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>>58781908

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>member the days?
>the virtual_game_boy_advance.exe limewire days?
>had cd from someone with vgba.exe and a ton of games
>this thing was a petri dish full of virus colony >but with a hole in the middle and flat as a cd
>runs fine on my system, had no antivirus
>try to be the cool kid and run this shit on my friends parents pc
>antivirus flips its shit vgba.exe is kill
>browser cd
>vgba.exe looks fine to me
>a virus would certanly look different than wonderful vgba.exe
>uninstall antivirus

cant remember what happened then, too long ago

>>58781898
dude, dunno about you americans but who doesnt keep contact with their parents?

>>58778653
>>58778866
>>58778866

stick to weed kids, it doesn't literally fry your brain

>>58783106
Will smoking weed make me pick up BSD?

>>58774044
I remeber when psx came out out, be young, looking at memory card options, selecting them all like it was a vidya game

>Format Card

ohhh that sounds good, like organizational or something

>watch it delete all my game saves

>.........

at least I learned what format meant on a 8mb videogame card, and not a hdd or something

>>58774058
You must be new here.

>>58783106
>>58783160
Which drugs should I use to get started with Haiku?

>>58781870

>pc-chilling

That seems to be the problem.

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>>58774044
>be 12 or something
>only computer is my dad's
>I get to play Riven for ~2h a day
>fuck around with wallpaper settings on this Win95/98 PC
>file picker opens in a folder full of porn
>I am curious and select one to see it full-size
>click apply
>desktop background is now a picture of a brown girls' vagina which takes up 30% of the screen
>original picture was a family photo which was nowhere to be found
>hear dad walk down the hallway
>panic
>too dumb to simply choose *any* other standard background and shrug it off, instead desperately try to dig up that family photo FAST
>dad enters the room, his computer is still showing a desktop full of brown vagina.
>I pull the plug, blush and run out

mfw dad never brought it up again

>>58778500
r u implying loonix doesnt werk

:^)

>>58784325
kek

>>58774095
thats fucking hilarious

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>trying to get game to boot in dos on my old windows 98
>keeps crashing to desktop
>decide to set the exit path of dos to dos
>stuck in dos forever

> be 8
> learn how to delete files
> learn how to free disk space
> start deleting useless files in my documents folder
> go deeper to clean up that C: shit
> start deleting files in program files
> go deeper to system32
> see a lot of shit i dont even know why its in my hard drive
> delete everything in folder
> reboot
> programs dont work, lots of warning messages, system works resolution went to shit, im looking at a 8bit picture
>father sends pc to repair shop, they charge 500usd to reinstall windows

i deleted system32 before 4chan even existed, i fucked up several other things lots of times, fuck pc technicians, thank god i learned how to fix my own shit.

>be fat fuck 10 yr old
>Play wow vanilla
>my shitty dell can't hack it
>get a cunt hair near ironforge
>DC ten times until I fly over it
>eating lucky charms or some shitty food
>throw spoon at monitor
>it breaks and I can't raid
>Ashkandi drops
>have most DKP as warrior
>asshole GM gets it

My parents were lazy

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>>58786984
What the fuck did I just read

>>58774044
>can't use the internet
>download antivirus to combat it

wut?

>>58778384
>installed bootloader on /dev/sda1 where my beloved win7 was

Well there's your problem.

>>58786995
It's all WoW terms, but DKP is a shit system :^)

>3 years ago
>trying to install various linux distros for the first time as a newbie
>tries to install with a dual boot with windows
>accidentally delete all the data on my harddisk, including windows partition, efi partition, etc.
>finds out the distro was corrupted because of faulty installation to usb drive
>don't have any install cd or usb of any OS
>that was the only computer in the house

I fixed all these issues after a fucking week. What a retard.

>>58782928
lot of parents fuck off, or kids are gay and parents disown them or any number of disappointments.

>>58782166
lots of false positive things back in the day, and any virus or shit would slow your crap down bad. if the program ran, it was likely a benign false positive.

>>58787506
and this is why you keep a copy of knoppix on hand at all times.

>>58775533
Man, I miss boot/Maximum PC. I regret throwing out all those issues I had :(

>>58774058
>be you
>faggot

>>58788931
This reminds me, they had an issue with a centerfold of the latest and greatest pc build. I hung it inside my locker in middle school.

Why didn't anyone like me? :(

>>58782928
i havent talked to my father in 4 years.

alcoholic faggot used to slap me around and shove me into walls until I got as tall as he did. fucking cocksucker

>>58774504
Made me chuckle

>>58778384
Kek

>be me
>be 10-12 at the time
>mid 90's
>family gets internet
>become obsessed with internet porn
>get sucked down the deep dark rabbit hole and get into some really twisted shit
>don't know browser history is a thing
>come home from school
>mom has a multi-page printout of my porn-related searches
>makes me read them aloud
>grounded for life

>>58774044
>12-or-so years old.
>Mom's computer she bought off HSN is running out of storage.
>Start deleting old shit I don't think I need.
>Delete system32.
>Before 4chan.
>I deleted system32 before 4chan.

>>58787229
used one of those antivirus installations cd

>>58776005
Did you start Desktop Destroyer?

>>58774095
>>be 9
You must be at least 18 years old to post on 4chan

I thought that CRT monitor was a fucking PC.

>>58774504
Top lel

>>58775533
>Minimum BS
So there's still some BS in this mag.

>>58781688
>>58781870
Kek'ed

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I'm 31 y.o. I began studying PC somewhere in 1991, but got my own PC only in 2002.

So no major fuskyups happened to me, but:

1)
>trying to connect some shitty CPU cooler to my good old pentium 3's motherboard
>power up
>some shit on the mobo literally blows up
>turn it off
>install another cooler
>everything works fine

2)
>connect some unknown PSU to my old test setup
>connect FDD (why? just because it was there right near the setup)
>power on
>fire comes out of FDD, PSU ruined, one mem stick is ruined. And I guess the mobo is ruined, didn't tried to look into it since then

>>58775236
>newfag

Only newest of the fags type that dumb "be me" phrase", I only started seeing that shit like last year

>>58792523
????

Been like that for years m8 way to be a tryhard faggot tho.

>>58793281
Where? I haven't gone to /b/ since like 2009, didn't see it on other boards until recently

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>>58792523
Shit is old as fuck, newfag.

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>>58774058
>>58792523
>>58793328
retard

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>>58793445
>2012
>old

Also judging by that yotsuba color scheme and the subject of those threads, that seems to indeed be /b/ which I said I haven't visited this decade

I destroyed two laptops by spilling beer over it. Itś going to happen again. And i don give a shit.

>>58793560
Get a thinkpad, it's liquid resistant

>>58793589
I need to remember that. Didn't knew that it was a thing. They make retardproof laptops specially for me!

>>58793632
Yeah it's pretty neat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7cvi00OZDM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6K6Cxi2DVY

>>58789536
>read them aloud
I hope your mom is sexy man

>>58774044
>10yo
>ransomware
Fake or underage

>>58791546
>iMac G3
>Mac OS 9
This was clearly over a decade ago.

>>58794270
Nobody has used limewire in a decade

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>>58778745
/g/ should make a magazine like pic related

>be me
> shitty little 13 year old coding in the schools library
>building a worm virus because I was bored and wanted to see if it could
>run the virus
>virus tunneled through the schools network infecting every PC that was on it
>300+
>teachers loose their shit because all it displays is horse porn and you can't get rid of it
>tech guys where still looking for the culprit after I switched school

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>>58795200
>horse porn
Nobody cares who you are--nevermind, you know the rest.

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>>58774504

>>58795200
>old computer from McDonald's crew room at my gramma's
>just browsing the HDD
>play a video I find
>it's a chick fucking a horse

>>58795237
Franklin was the shit

>>58774504
you should have written bootloop like 20 more times anon

>be like 6-7 years old
>visit friend who's father is a priest
>whole family hardcore Christian, except friend
>we decide to play vidya on friends father pc
>booting up
>finally loading windows
>anti virus pops up, and mails pop up too
>close down the anti virus, but get intrigued by mails
>clicking around, and we fiscover tons of porn
>hot naked nuns all over the screen
>we decide to embark on a new adventure
>to find all the porn that is on the pc
>we browsed over 200 pics off naked nuns, and holy men fucking them
>enough pc playtime for today.jpeg
My first encounter with a pc was alot of porn, and wierd priest mails.

>>58778384
>too stupid to install os-prober
You deserve losing your stuff.

>Be me age 11
>finally got a shitty hand me down laptop after asking for one for ~6 years.
>not poor, dad just wouldn't buy me a computer
>Chatting up hottie from my 5th grade class
>"Anon come have breakfast"
>Close computer, eat breakfast, go back to computer
>ohfuck porn spam virus something (to this day not sure)
>can't x out of anything using GUI, little kid so I don't know what task manager is even
>panic close the lid, heart racing, start sweating lightly
>Mom walks in the room
> "hey anon I needed to tell you about -- why did you close that laptop lid anon"
>OHFUCKNO
>NO reason mom I just didn't want to look at computer right now
>Mom opens computer.
>Look at image of woman spreading her ass with mother next to me
>11 year old panic, almost have heart attack
>ANON WTF


Long story short geeksquad fixed my shit.

>>58787506
this reminds me of my own story

>be a couple years ago
>really getting into linux
>dual boot and distrohop constantly
>at one point i quabooted
>always keep ubuntu and windows installed but tried other shit as well
>idk why i didnt just run it live
>be trying to partition a new kali install since that shit looked cool
>there are 7 dev/sda/ partitions
>5 empty
>wtf
>realized i was just clearing parititions and making new ones whenever i would install a new OS

>>58776417
>HDD fails
Couldn't you just reformat it like with floppies?

>>58781870
Kek, so 90s

>>58786948
>they charge 500usd
Rage

It was like a year ago.
> sysadmin at the company which supports government websites
> Anon, one of the editors just wiped a regional website, we need a database restored
> there's one database for the whole bunch of TLD regional sites
> Roger!
> deflate it
> full retard mode on
> I restore a 20h old backup right into the production database, effectively rolling back every regional website and wiping the actual content (last 24h) on all of them
I wasn't fired.

>>58794270
We are 2 years and some months away from 2020. Get with the times, grumpy.

>>58795237
Nah not that kind of horse porn like full on beastility type shit.

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>be young
>doing stuff on family laptop
>when alone I would look at porn images, usually just topless, and sit there with my erection
>I would store the images in the recycle bin
>Dad opens recycle bin one day
uh oh

>bought a GTX 970

>>58794270
first ransomware was aids (1994) you dumb fuck

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Posted this story in a previous thread:

>be 11
>have a tandy pc in the house (1000TL or similar, don't remember the exact model but it looked like pic related)
>have basic knowledge of msdos (including a very rudimentary understanding of config.sys but not autoexec.bat)
>computer has basic on it (specifically, gw-basic)
>know basic, play around with it all the time
>introduced to the idea of running basic programs directly from command line
>don't learn specific details on how do
>simply think "I can make stuff in basic and run it from dos"
>have "good idea"
>make basic program that displays some sort of simple welcome message and plays a sound
>that aforementioned crappy understanding of config.sys pretty much amounts to nothing more than what autoexec.bat is
>open config.sys
>add welcome.bas
>somehow think this shit will work even though it doesn't work from the command prompt
>save
>ctrl+alt+del
>pc locks while booting
>ohgodwhathaveidone.jpg
>say nothing
>uncle takes computer home with him to fix it
>never see it again

It hurts how stupid I was sometimes.

>>58778384
How do you even do that? Ubuntu literally holds your hand and has buttons for "Install alongside Windows" and "Install Fresh". You have to be a real retard to mess up an Ubuntu install.

>>58776417
Full format shouldn't cause the HDD to fail unless it was already in the process of doing so, even if you interrupt it. If anything, all you did was reveal its problem sooner than regular use would have.

>>58789536
>grounded
>for expressing natural sexuality at the right age
What the fuck is with Americans?

>>58774044
How did you download antivirus if you had no internet?

>>58774044
when i found out about 4chan

>>58776005
>>run norton because retarded child
How is that retarded? Isn't that what you do in that situation?

>>58800878
Religion

>>58784325
He probably never brought it up because it was HIS porn on HIS computer, it probably embarrassed him more than it embarrassed you.

>>58789536
Kek, that is what I will do if I ever catch my kids watching porn.

>>58774044
I was so dumb I didn't know how wifi worked until I was 12. I'm 21 now and still wince at the thought of me using an ethernet cable for my PS3 for a good year before finding out how to connect to wifi and not have a 50ft cable from the modem to my room.

>>58792523
Greentext stories that being with
>be me
have been around since at least 2010. Mostly on /r9k/ or /b/.

>>58801220
Two boards which I never browse. It's so silly though

>>58791546
Go shitpost somewhere else.

>>58800243
I'm sorry

>>58800801
It's okay. I did equally stupid things to my mum's pc.

>>58801252
Eh, memes spread tho. Pepe came from /b/ and went to /r9k/ as some disgusting miscreant who ate his own shit and now is /pol/'s god.

>>58801146
But using ethernet cables is actually better for devices in your home that remain stationary all the time.

>>58801433
Yeah, downloading updates was faster with it but my idiocy was not knowing how to connect to wifi at all.

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>Be me
>11 years old idiot in 2005
>computer is slow as fuck (it was shitty slim pc)
>fucking adware shits are every where
>it pops up while playing gaymen
>pissed off
>go to control panel
>i can't figure out what the fuck was that
>um.. may be i should clean my pc?
>pour water with sprayer in mainboard
>adware has gone but shit is still slow.
>and powermanagement is fucked up.

Fucking hell probably that is worst pc in my life time it was undescribably crap.

>>58801478
>11 years old
>Pours water on it
Nobody is this retarded even at this age
>Water gets on mobo
>Computer isn't fucking fried
Fake

>be 11
>want to share my musix on limewire
>go to the folder settings
>check the mark for the folder
>limewire starts sharing my whole HDD (i didnt know at the time)
>hundreds of files keep popping
>ctrl A. delete
>they keep popping
>wtf hackers
>keep deleting
>computer crashes
>blue screen of death
>tell friend after a week
>he fixes
>back to tell n00bs to alt+f4 on SC.

>>58801478
> adware magically clean from running water over PC
No.

>>58801526
Sadly i had Adhd at that age and still struggling with them
alsoparents has no idea for fixing shit so i had to call fixer with 30usd 17fucking time that pc was fucking disaster. Fuck my childhood
>>58801566
It's still mystery
but i still not cleary remember

>>58801623
Are you having a stroke or is English not your first language?

>so i had to call fixer
>It's still mystery

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>>58801655
>Tfw uneducated

>>58792523
This
Also only newfags call people newfags
They see newfag posted on r/4chan and think putting fag after every word will fool people into thinking they've been here ages
or as they would call it, an oldfag.

>>58801729
The terms newfag, oldfag, and >be me have been around for fucking years
If you think otherwise you show that you haven't been here that long

>>58801752
Exactly, so r/4chan has had plenty of time to pick up on them
They're the same as saying lel and, without context, kek, unironically. They're dead now, and only people that dont know that still use them

>be op
>crave attention, kiss ass on a daily basis.
>go on 4chan
>start a new thread
>make up some bullshit story to get some (You)'s and keks
>forget that i wasn't able to connect to the Internet
>proceed to download antivirus anyways, because logic right?
>half-assed av tells me to delete system32
>press ok
>reboot pc to make sure everything is working
>pc stuck on a bootloop
>autistic_freakout.avi

Sheesh

>>58803993
>Flashdrives and other computers dont exist
>Doesn't know that avs didnt know not to delete sys files

>>58800924
>Norton

>be 22
>Have two external Lacie HDDs
>Travel to my parents place and then back home with both drives
>Connect one of them
>Use the wrong power supply adapter (they're both Lacie branded but with different voltage)
>Fry the HDD

Luckily I only fried the internals of the external casing, the HDD itself still worked and I could recover the files by taking the HDD out of the case and connect with with a SATA to USB adapter.

>>58804375
>same brand
>different power supplies
>same barrel plug
Literal cancer

>>58774044
>fixing up brothers computer
>CPU is a bit stuck so have to tug on in a bit
>breaks free, flies across the room
>bent pins that can't be put back into place

I offered to go halves on replacement components, basically upgraded his comp.

>2017
Installed Windows

>>58800951
CORRECTION: ABRAHAMIKEK RELIGIONS.

>>58801083
>not showing them a positive attitude towards sexuality and how to delete the browser history

>>58801083
you are a fucking devil

not joking u are an asshole

ITT: tl;dr

>>58774044
We've all been there if you're a 90's kid lol

>>58774166
>15
>limewire

>be 13
>download lostboy.exe from some /b/ thread
>it actually fucked me
I learned a lot after that

>>58800801
Another:

>be 12
>have oldschool mac at home, on loan from middle school
>poking around hard drive one day
>decide to move/rename/delete? system folder for reasons forgotten
>go to use computer later
>doesn't boot
>notagain.jpg
>say nothing, again
>only one who uses it, so no problems detected
>eventually ask the teacher for my technology class if he had a system disk
>teacher lends disk
>boot mac
>undo stupidity
>everythingwentbetterthanexpected.jpg

>>58801752
Newfag and oldfag have been around longer than most of us; I just know for a fact it's been here for 9 years or longer. >be me came from the fucking worst cancer, though. Not to say oldfag or newfag are much better, but it's not as fucking stupid - it's just """insensitive""".

>>58774058
Never understood why people pretend to get triggered over this. There are clearly stories of people telling you events that happened to a friend of theirs or something, and thus start with
>be my friend

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>>58774044

> be 11ish
> family just got AOL dialup (~1997 or so)
> have my own AOL account
> mostly go on chatrooms asl & cyber ftw
> can't remember how it started
> log onto AOL account one day
> weird email from someone I didn't know
> "What the fuck you saying, pussy bitch?"... etc
> it was a reply from an email i'd never sent
> check sent folder
> 500+ emails sent
> All of them say shit like "[email protected] wants to suck your dick!"
> "[email protected] says you're the hottest piece of pussy around!"
> "[email protected] wants to pound your tight holes!"
> ohfuckohfuckohfuck
> no idea what to do
> Parents say enough time on computer, go to bed
> check next day before school
> more than 10,000 emails sent
> try replying to some say computer must be infected
> like blowing at the Hindenburg
> Internet not working that night
> AOL had shut off our internet for spam after shit load of complaints
> parents get told about it when they phone up to complain
> They used the AOL account to run their business from so they were proper pissed off
> Ask me what I've been doing on internet

> "Dunno mum it must have been a virus or something..."

>>58806110
That was like two years ago get out from here's

>>58774044

> download this fucking retarded superhero game
> my friends made me beileve it was a real game but they were too stupid to know it was malware as well
> get some ransomware that locks my computer saying "THIS COMPUTER IS LOCKED BY THE CIA"

I actually was able to fix it though

I guess it wasn't very potent malware because it didn't encrypt my hard drive

Also why do windows programs always have such a cancerous installer filled with malware?

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>be me, like 5 years old
>from a pretty poor family
>dad brings home a laptop
>Win95 or some shit
>goes to cook some food
>leaves me to fuck around with the PC
>find "Search for files" in the start menu
>search for "*" or "." or "a", can't remember
>basically something really vague, which showed me a bunch of random files from everywhere
>think to myself "oh, these are surely just a bunch of junk files, not needed for anything"
>"I better help dad and just delete all this shit"
>select a bunch of files and delete them
>next day, dad tries booting the laptop
>shit ain't booting

>>58799592


>I would store the images in the recycle bin

KEk
smart move goy

>>58789536
>read aloud

Genius

>>58806229
I actually feel like a weight was lifted off my shoulders after that ending. Good on you resolving that.

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>>58778653

>be me
>try to upgrade pc with new cpu
>ordered a new cpu
>put it in
>pc wont start
>sent it back and said it's not working
>they send me a new one
>same shit
>they send me another one
>again
>they send me a new one
>again not working
>they send me the same back this time with a note that it's working
>the moment I realized it's not compatible with my old ram
>got new ram and everything works fine
>blush

>be me
>13 years old
>browse 4chan for the first time
>

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>>58774044
>Be me, think I'm hot shit.
>Get home from clubbing at 3am completely shitfaced.
>Decide it's a good idea to try installing Arch Linux on my laptop
>Think I partitioned my drive, then format.
>Drunken brain can't handle anything, pass out on laptop.
>Wake up next morning, decide to do some homework.
>No boot medium found.
>Wtf.jpg
>Boot off USB to see what's wrong.
>Hard drive is 500gb of unallocated space.
>Remember what I tried that night.
>Formatted my whole drive, my lovely Windows is gone along with all my precious data.
>Install Ubuntu, never use Windows again.

>open existing file in write mode
FUCK

>>58774044
>be me
>get my first pc
>download movies, music, cracks, warez, porn etc.
>anti virus detects shit
>pc still works
>nothing else happens
>meh

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>Be 15
>Building new PC
>Reusing a few parts from my old PC that I never cleaned
>PSU has dust all over it
>Grab a static duster and dust it off
>Hear zaps and sparks
>ohfuck
>Turn on computer
>It's fine

>be 12
>build a pc (very shit but the case was aesthetic)
>start rootkit development age 15 in VM
>no AV (run sketchy shit in VM)
>no incidents

>currently 21
>build a pc (high tier, couldn't wait for zen)
>no incidents

Just use common sense lol

>>58799592
>just sitting there looking at porn with a boner

i did this too, it was weirdly better than fapping.