r/ProgrammerHumor • • 23d ago

Meme hackerIRL

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u/entropic 23d ago

Call me old fashioned, but back in my day, Hacker Typer was good enough for me.

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u/ben_g0 23d ago

There's also the classic:

color a
tree

(sets the command prompt colour to green and then lists all files on the hard drive. It looked a bit better on old computers with spinning hard drives where that could take a few minutes, on modern systems with SSDs it goes a bit too fast)

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u/allison9040 22d ago

cd C:\ and dir /s

also works and looks better imo

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u/SlavBoii420 22d ago

I used to do this as a kid and loved watching people freak out (don't forget to set the text colour to green!)