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		dmitryminkovsky on July 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IPv4 pricing I remember these days, and they were pretty ridiculous. One time I was playing Quake in middle school, talking some smack. Someone didn't like it and threatened to crash my computer. I didn't believe it. "Oh yeah, do it!" And they did. Got my IP from the server (the server listed users and their IPs) and bada-bing: BSOD! I was floored. I don't remember the exact Windows 95 exploit, but it was a staple for a while. It was nice when firewalls came out and you could at least have something between you and the Internet.

icedchai on July 28, 2021 | [–]

Sounds like a mid-90's "ping of death."

dmitryminkovsky on July 28, 2021 | | [–]

Sounds right, thank you.

_xy8h on July 28, 2021 | [–]

Likely Winnuke, Teardrop or Land, those were the three most commonly used types of DoS exploits used against Win 3.x and Win95 users at the time.

dmitryminkovsky on July 29, 2021 | [–]

Searched these and the rabbit hole was awesome. Thank you.

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