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I was expelled from school for having a website where I listed downloads of all the AOL tools I could possibly find. There were thousands... The school network

I was expelled from school for having a website where I listed downloads of all the AOL tools I could possibly find. There were thousands... The school network administrator somehow found my website and decided that these AOL tools were being used "to hack the Macintosh network and slow it down". I protested to the school principal that they were completely unrelated, but as a 13 year old interested in hacking, I didn't have any credibility. That followed me around on my permanent record and other schools treated me like a criminal. Joke's on them, though. I learned to teach myself everything (since they refused to), dropped out of school, and got a job at a start-up. Don't stay in school, kids - hack for fun and profit!

stripline 5y ago
This reminds me of how ignorant most adults & teachers were back then about the internet. When I was in 10th grade (~1995) my high school had a new class called "U.S. History with Internet". Kudos to my school for trying to include the internet in the curriculum, but what it amounted to was 3 days a week of normal history class and 2 days spent in the computer lab. Ostensibly we were supposed to be doing history research on the internet, but of course we did anything but. The best part was they had the shop teacher teach for the internet days. He knew less about computers than most of us 15 year-olds. He'd slowly read directions off a paper - "Type in the U R L bar..." and we'd already be 5 steps ahead of him. My friend got in trouble for looking at homemade bongs, but the hilarious part is that the teacher was convinced he was actually looking up bomb making instructions and that "bong" was some sort of obfuscation.