Wiseltier, realizing what he had done, fired off a quick apology. But his email "triggered a rare, University-wide revelation," Kelly Weill wrote in NYU Local, the student newspaper. "We simultaneously realized that any message, complaint, whim, link, video, or GIF could be sent to nearly 40,000 people in an instant."
And thousands of students did.
We always just "Hasselhoff'd" our coworkers computer. For those less technically inclined it was rather difficult to change the desktop and lock screen but a few of us figured out how to.
EDIT: unfuckingbelievable. I'm sitting in a class and someone just asked the professor that via anonymous course comments. What is wrong with the world."Would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses, or 1 horse sized duck?" another asked.
Yep. Okay.
Reddit or meme culture more generally, IMO.EDIT: unfuckingbelievable. I'm sitting in a class and someone just asked the professor that via anonymous course comments. What is wrong with the world.