I almost failed speech class in 8th grade because I arranged for a minor distraction in the hallway and then changed my teacher's desktop background to a pigeon while she was investigating. And then it became a sort of game, how many times can I get that pigeon up while she's helping someone on the other side of the room. I dunno why it made her so angry. I didn't read the article.
Is it story time? Our school had an ANSI art splash screen depicting the school's logo while the ancient token ring network did its thing on boot and login. Deep ASCII was making its rounds on the Internet. I had recently discovered AALib and like all kids with desktops in their bedroom, had a very large collection of very short porn videos on 1.44" diskettes. I did the obvious thing. No one ever knew it was me.