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Reminds me of when I was 11 and pasted stolen nintendo 64 content on geocities until I was earning $10 a month checks, then I got greedy and learned javascript
by geor9e 2y ago
Reminds me of when I was 11 and pasted stolen nintendo 64 content on geocities until I was earning $10 a month checks, then I got greedy and learned javascript to click my own banners every second 24/7 but somehow they caught on and my business empire all came crumbling down
- CamperBob2 2y agoI gotta ask what lessons you took away from that experience.
- geor9e 2y agoIt was probably good to get "caught" once with no real consequences, so I wouldn't grow up to try it at the $10M level. I abandoned that N64 website soon after, but a decade or two later I got an email from a stranger, thanking me for hosting the forums that were a huge part of her growing up, where she made lifelong friends, etc. The thing was, I forgot I even made a forum. Few used it at the time I abandoned it. It was only accessible via my N64 website, but the back end was hosted by a third party forum service, so they must have moderated it all those years. It felt like that episode of the Simpsons where Lisa discovers a civilization in her petri dish.
- scottiebarnes 2y agoThis is like a rite of passage for young early web devs. Click the banners till you get banned.