Our university's computers were all connected by Novell NetWare around the late nineties.

I browsed the network folders one day and crept into the depths of the mechanical engineering's masters department, very curious to see what they're working on.

Everything was password-protected, though. So, I tried the obvious trick of using the folder name as the password.

One of them works: ertjie ("pea" in Afrikaans - this was Rand Afrikaans Universiteit, btw, now called University of Johannesburg)

I gain access, and look at some awesome blueprints for what looked like a dune buggy, etc etc. Then I spot something which makes my heart rate increase ever so slightly: QUAKE2.EXE

I right click and create a networked link to the EXE and share it with the entire class (30-ish second-years taking "C++ for engineers").

Most of us run the game, and find an ongoing LAN game and join it. All of a sudden, 5 or so masters students are joined by 20+ more folks and having a blast.

And "ertjie" popping up on in-game chat asking something like "wtf did you guys come from lol"