> Who hired you? Pre-internet, nobody. Professional computer nerds did hardware. I was a screwup kid only interested in bad ideas from other screwup kids with

> Who hired you? Pre-internet, nobody. Professional computer nerds did hardware. I was a screwup kid only interested in bad ideas from other screwup kids with modems. > What did you work on? The internet. We had dial-up BBSs and some pay services, mostly to distribute text files. I spent most of my time writing peer-to-peer networking, distributed file storage, and p2p content discovery. > How did you Learn? The book that came with the compiler and/or IDE was usually excellent and all you needed. I tried reading Dr Dobbs, but that was usually closer to hardware, and way over my head. There were all these books full of prose that I didn’t care about. I just wanted code to get things done. > How did you fix issues? Change. Compile. Error message. Repeat. > How did you find talent? Kids that swapped floppies at school. Started with txtz, then pr0n, then warez, then c0dez. > War stories? Lots of screwup kid stuff learned from txtz like making bombs and drugs. Password stealing worms. Eventually pioneered the click fraud worm at the beginning of the internet and that was the end of it for me.