Back in 1991 the older students showed me how to telnet to port 25 and make my "From:" email address be anything. It was funny when the person sitting next to me received an email from satan@hell.gov
My very political grandpa definitely received a few emails from the "president", along with a few email from a "government agency" following up on the emails.
Back in 1991 the older students showed me how to telnet to port 25 and make my "From:" email address be anything. It was funny when the person sitting next to me received an email from satan@hell.gov
My very political grandpa definitely received a few emails from the "president", along with a few email from a "government agency" following up on the emails.
Hey. That was a gateway drug for teenage 'hackers' hehe
I remember grex.org and arbornet.org . My first free Unix shel acccounts hehe. Made friends worldwide.
Grex only shut down recently, in 2023.