People like to shit on LiveJournal, but having one inspired me to learn: - HTML/CSS - hex code (for picking theme colors) - how to make animated gifs - image compression - basic webhosting - basic security - a ton of Photoshop - content & community
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I spent hours tripping around BIOS screens, trying out key combos and menu options. No manual to guide me. I felt like a techno spy.
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And now I touch kernels and networks and work to provide a stable platform for millions of old and new techno spies.
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If you're disappointed with your progress, go further back.
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Did you ever play with DOS boot menus? They were so much fun
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I had setups for QEMM profiles to run certain games like XWing and Doom on my meager 4MB RAM computer, which I had failed to upgrade its ram several times (incompatible parts)
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I walked by the LJ office not that long ago, it’s underneath the Bay Bridge in SF east of Embarcadero
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Reminds me of when my dad brought me an old computer someone wanted to get rid off, he knew nothing about it, I spent countless hours in my room learning, literally starting from how to plug in all the cables <3 then BIOS how to install an OS
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