What was banned at your school and why?

Using the global drive. Some ballsy motherfucker figured out how to put a SNES emulator and a copy of Starfox 2 on the school's global folder back in 10th grade, and literally put it in plain sight. It got inexplicably popular, to the point where pretty much everyone had it open during any visit to the computer lab, and some people were getting pretty hardcore over it. This went on for about 4 weeks until someone in the IT department managed to find it-literally under My Computer/[School] Global/SNES-which either means they were incompetent as hell or letting it slide as hard as they could (or both)

Apparently, the only solution was to lock students out of the Global drive, effectively making it useless-the whole purpose was for students to be able to turn in assignments or teachers hosting files. This made assignment-intensive classes like computer science and AP Lit a lot harder until people started discovering DropBox and Google Docs (this was back in 2012). Of course, it didn't take long for people to start putting games on there as well, so the point is moot.

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