aren't you glad that you spent 12 hours in front of a computer everyday
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Well, I guess I could go back to mowing lawns, parks, & boulevards 16 hours a day, but I think I'll stick with the computer at home with music, my dogs, good food, a beer, a far larger bank account, no boss, and the ability to travel around the world whenever the fuck I want.
Just personal preference though.
Just personal preference though.
This, had my first site up when I was about 9 on Angelfire, shit was cash! Minus the real, actual cash.
Guess I underestimated about the age..
I was probably more like 10 too, fucking around with DOS terminals.
I remember back in 6th? grade me and a few friends discovered an exploit in some kind of really early gaming points/reward type website. It was something ridiculously simple like just refreshing the win page multiple times to keep racking up points. We were ballin, rolling in free VCR's and vaccumm cleaners and shit.
Who would've thought years down the line I would create a lucrative career along the same line of bullshit...
I was probably more like 10 too, fucking around with DOS terminals.
I remember back in 6th? grade me and a few friends discovered an exploit in some kind of really early gaming points/reward type website. It was something ridiculously simple like just refreshing the win page multiple times to keep racking up points. We were ballin, rolling in free VCR's and vaccumm cleaners and shit.
Who would've thought years down the line I would create a lucrative career along the same line of bullshit...
It really has been eyeopening seeing how bloody stupid my peers are. I wish I was more of a nerd so I would have gotten into development...but seeing my friends not have any idea what javascript is or how to resize an image in photoshop...is appalling.
It could be worst, making pennies and working 12 hours a day for a company that deems you disposable and people giving you a really hard time.
I've been on computers since the 80's. My parents saw it was the future and wanted me to have a leg up on everyone else. My dad basically saw it as the automobile of my generation (invention wise this is around the time the PC boom was really taking off) and to a degree he was right. I'm glad they let me sit down in front of it and learn as much as I could. I don't see that as neglect in any way. They went into massive debt so I could have an easier life and it paid off.
My very first site was at about 12, it was for Magic the Gathering. I remember we used to take pictures of our matches while we played and posted them on the website, that way we could play with each other from our own houses. We didn't think about how easy that made it to cheat though...