windows xp era stories

>be me, 18yo bored teenager, 14 years ago at school so around 2009

>got my classmate into c++ by contributing to an ultima online server called sphereserver, make "virus" that is basically an exe file, finds trillian logs on your pc, uploads them to our ftp server silently

>the whole reason this existed was because my classmate was into one of the girls and wanted to read her icq logs

>i have a close relationship with my mom, for some reason told her about the scheme

>my mom tells me not to steal the girls' chat logs, that they would not like it

>somehow my retard teenage brain trusts my mom, i actually empathize and ruin the scheme

>never tell my friend, we're still close after all these years but this is the one thing i've never told him

>that girl he wanted to steal the chat logs of, they've been married for more than 5 years now

>all worked out in the end

ITT: Things that never happened

you know what, fuck you, i hate people who think nothing ever happens. i go to 4chan for organic posts, and expect the same. i wouldn't have made the effort to type out this shit if it didn't happen. my mate was committing under the name Ellessar, we used TortoiseSVN and his name is still referenced in the wiki:

https://wiki.spherecommunity.net/index.php?title=Main_Page

i helped him with A* pathfinding under the name Enrath at the time, you can still probably find some old sphere logs with that nickname referenced at version

Nazghul was a german guy who helped us both

the rest of my post is true too, but i don't even care if you believe it

>>92942374 (OP)

cool story, good that it ended well

do you still program with c++?

thanks anon. no i don't. i've become i nodejs/react webshit because it pays well and is easy work.

if you want to have a laugh here is a reply to an email i sent to bjarne when i was 17 years old. please don't judge me, i am completely aware of how cringe it was

cool

dont have anything to share though

>>92942374 (OP)

My story goes like this:

>be me, 28yo married and gainfully employed

>have computer at work, so shitbox P2 running win2k remains my home machine

>motherboard fails

>oh well it was well past time for an upgrade anyway

>go to computer shop, come home with a "upgrade kit" consisting of

>>cheap am2 msi board

>>athlon 64 x2 5600+

>>2gb ddr2 ram

>slap it all in

>boot - near-instant bsod

>that's expected - edit registry to make sure all mass storage drivers are loaded and disable chipset drivers

>boot

>GIANT 640x480 SCREEN AND NO SOUND

>go online (yay 56k external modem) searching for win2k drivers

>that driver is for xp

>that's for vista

>hmm another xp driver

>another vista... hrm

>fuckthis.jpg

>go down computer shop and buy vista

>back up and perform clean install

>use that machine quite happily until its motherboard shits itself in 2013 and get a whole new ivy bridge with windows 8.1

>giggle to myself that over the last 12 years ive skipped all the baby duck versions of windows
