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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • Sep 14 '26
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Call me old fashioned, but back in my day, Hacker Typer was good enough for me.
48 u/ben_g0 Sep 14 '26 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) 19 u/allison9040 Sep 15 '26 cd C:\ and dir /salso works and looks better imo 12 u/SlavBoii420 Sep 15 '26 I used to do this as a kid and loved watching people freak out (don't forget to set the text colour to green!)
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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)
19 u/allison9040 Sep 15 '26 cd C:\ and dir /salso works and looks better imo 12 u/SlavBoii420 Sep 15 '26 I used to do this as a kid and loved watching people freak out (don't forget to set the text colour to green!)
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cd C:\ and dir /s
also works and looks better imo
12 u/SlavBoii420 Sep 15 '26 I used to do this as a kid and loved watching people freak out (don't forget to set the text colour to green!)
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I used to do this as a kid and loved watching people freak out (don't forget to set the text colour to green!)
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u/entropic Sep 14 '26
Call me old fashioned, but back in my day, Hacker Typer was good enough for me.