Show HN: This website moves your mouse cursor
Something exactly like this almost got me kicked out of school, first year.<p>I had just picked up Delphi and being the nerd I was, I wanted to make use of it anywhere I could. At the time, the Windows API was essentially completely open to mess with, and I had discovered a bunch of weird things, like the fact that setting (!) the mouse cursor position was even possible, and I knew the CD ROM drive could be opened with code as well.<p>I packed those things into a quick Delphi program, removed its main window (so like a daemon essentially) and then deployed it on our school computers (everything was open, I just put it into the Startup folder if I remember correctly).<p>Well, I had the daemon deployed on most computers eventually and it had a timer that looked up a file on the shared network drive, and depending on what was in that file, it would do something, or stay quiet in the background.<p>Since our IT classes were mostly just &quot;doing stuff in Microsoft Word&quot; (good old times), I couldn&#x27;t hold off for too long and just added the magical &quot;shakymouse&quot; to the text file, a minute or two later, you would see everyone&#x27;s mouse cursor start to wobble. It became next to impossible to hit a button or anything really, and I just had the time of my life as the teacher scrambled around to figure out what in the hell was going on.<p>I then changed the text file to &quot;cd&quot; and everyone&#x27;s CD drive opened (one after the other as they all slowly picked up the command). It was SO AMAZING (just the choreography of it all), I literally almost shit my pants out of excitement.<p>Problem was, there was only one person in the entire school they felt was capable of such nonsense, so they had me at the principal&#x27;s office an hour later. They made a big show out of it, and told me to go home as they&#x27;ll come up with a punishment and they&#x27;ll also need to talk to my parents.<p>I thought I was in massive trouble, didn&#x27;t sleep at all that night. Next morning, I&#x27;m back at school, principal wants to see me, tells me I am free from having to attend the IT classes, as I clearly don&#x27;t need them, and this reduces the chance of me getting bored. So it worked out quite nicely after all. Lesson learned... CRIME PAYS!!!