This happened to a friend of mine in the 90s. He was checking his email with pine. The lady who ran the school computer lab called the terminal "the black program with the blinking thing."
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Did these people not know what DOS was? Or Apple IIs with the 5 1/4" floppys?
someone ordered a relevant xkcd?
I doubt the parents called the police on OP for hacking. Parents just get angry or ground their kids for "hacking".
"Breaking the new computer", to paraphrase my parents.
my dad said Linux broke the computer when I installed Ubuntu as a last ditch attempt to get it to work with failing ram 😭😭
it was blue screening like every 20 minutes before