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Same era, same net send! But at the International School of Geneva. Good to know that word got around. I also knew how to change the process name, so that libra
by peterburkimsher 5y ago
Same era, same net send! But at the International School of Geneva. Good to know that word got around. I also knew how to change the process name, so that librarians listing everyone's frontmost process with MasterEye wouldn't realise that students were playing games. Or type =rand(200,99) into a Word document (some idiot classmate then decided to press print). I was still just a nerd though.
When I had a 1st gen iPod, I was teased for it. But then the iPod became popular, and I knew how to swap hard drives and screens around to do repair. That's when "I suddenly went from unpopular nerd, to guy you want to know."
I went off to study Electronic Systems Engineering, exchange programme to California, Working Holiday around the world, 4 years in Taiwan, and am now working as an embedded software developer in New Zealand. But for me, it all goes back to iPodLinux as a teenager. I'm grateful for early-2000s Apple, yet also disappointed at how difficult phones are to repair these days, and how that will prevent the next generation from tinkering the way I did.