Wow... ... lost for words. Thanks a lot! Not working that long. I started in publishing and self trained to pivot to data/web analytics. Nowadays I work at an

Wow... ... lost for words. Thanks a lot! Not working that long. I started in publishing and self trained to pivot to data/web analytics. Nowadays I work at an digital agency crunching numbers, advising customers, writing white papers or trying to (objectively) benchmark different sites using the tools at hand. But these "war" stories are reminding me of some people that showed me the first html, gave me the first *nix OS and made me enter the internet at 14.4... This were the first proper hackers I encountered. I remember, one of them, being 15 at the time, working as the only server admin at a local isp, while still going to school. One night all our IRC bots just disappeared showing him, that something was really wrong at his workplace. We were the only ones left awake and so I offered to fetch him (me being 19 and able to drive) and drive im to work. There I saw for the first time someone in parallel working on a routing server, compiling a kernel on a local machine and just for the sake of it bringing a local workstation up to date. Never had seen fingers flying that fast over three different keyboards, while I had my first experience on a 2mbit connection (the connection, that this provider had overall). Well - that made me learn some more things in regards to computers and the net - but in hindsight, I could have made my way faster.