I was 14 during the bubble and started a webdesign and hosting company with a 16 year old friend. It took weeks to open a business bank account as it was not p

I was 14 during the bubble and started a webdesign and hosting company with a 16 year old friend. It took weeks to open a business bank account as it was not possible for 18- to do so. We sold 25mb webhosting for 30,-. We designed websites with Photoshop and programmed them in php with an IDE called AceHtml Pro. We sold them for 1000,-. The media coverage was big. Local newspapers, local TV. I was too young to know what I was doing, we only had 2 customers. Internet was booming news and offline channels covered whole pages about us. After the media attention we grew fast. We hired a rack at a datacenter and were refused many times at the door, because we looked like kids. We earned quite some money for our age, build pc's and servers, went to LAN parties. We hacked the webserver of a competitor company in a village nearby and replaced the photos of employees with edited variants with different ugly color shades. It took them weeks to notice. We used Telnet to find the version of the Exchange server, hacked into the email, found webserver credentials. One time a company wanted a contract for the webdesign. We didnt have those. We took the contract from some competitor but forgot to change their business name. They signed without reading. We communicated over IRC and landline phone. I had an internet connection over ISDN, my cofounder cable (CATV). Sometimes we used ICQ. We had business cards with our logo and we would give them to everyone. On a bicycle we went through the villages to spread businesscards to farmers. Those cards had the sticker of a cow on it. 2 weekends spreading cards gave us about 10 clients. We created a simple website with pictures of the farm and equipment. They paid 750 for it and 150 per extra page. They shared the website with family and other farmers. Often this gave new clients. After 2 years or so we got bored and gave everything away to a company we were friends with. Now I own several software companies.