#27278 - 03/13/02 12:42 AM
Re: What is ur excuse?
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Gremelin
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god man, i've had a comp since i was ****in 2, found it fascinating so i toyed with it, broke through the passwords on Dos Menu, and had some fun then worked ever sence...
as for phreaking, i got shocked to **** from a dslam and always woundered what it was, so i learned heh...
as for electricion work, i got shoked to **** by a wall outlet lol..
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#27279 - 03/13/02 01:03 AM
Re: What is ur excuse?
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SilentRage
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huh, gee, kinda hard to say. I grew up in a computer-oriented family. My dad has been a programmer (mostly in main frames) ever since I can remember. So I've been exposed to the dos days when dos was king and windows 3.1 and IBM OS/2 Warp and all that old shiat. However, I never got into the computers aspect. I was just a kid and didn't want to sit in front of some old boring computer unless it's to play games. And when things went wrong, I contentedly relied on my dad to fix it.  Then sophomore year in high school came along and I had computer classes! It was just some boring learning how to use various office applications so I started to tinker around a bit. I remember fondly my excitement in discovering before a friend of mine on how to show the "hidden files". Also, I had gotten engrossed in "finding" all kinds of files on the harddrive through the open file dialog from Word.  At first there didn't seem to be anything in the folders until I discovered the "All Files" item in the filter list box. I started deleting like mad - wondering what will happen. I felt really evil when I'd try to delete some files and windows would say "deleting these files may prevent windows from operating correctly" or "Access Denied - file is currently being used by windows". Nevertheless the computer started ****ing up, so I rebooted... it never came back up. My teacher was so puzzled when he said it seemed like somebody deleted a bunch of files. I pretended ignorance... So at first the computer was just a curious little toy. My friend was a little more security-oriented and tried to show me late one night a port scanner he'd found (7th Sphere). I thought it pretty cool to see all those numbers flashing by, but didn't understand a bit of it and fell asleep while he was doing whatever exciting things he was doing.  By my senior year, I had learned a thing or two about the small closed network in my school's computer lab. It was getting very fascinating for me, and my friend's hacker talk interested me even more. I have an adventurous and curious type personality and love sneaking around doing things nobody can track. However, I had no idea on where to start, and programming was also getting very interesting... It wasn't until my freshman year in college (2 years ago) that I actually started to get somewhere in hacking knowledge. During that year I had my taste and a few meals of hacking and found myself satisfied. I no longer want to progress much in the art of hacking, and am content with just reading and hearing about new techniques and such - without actually doing them. Instead, I devote my love to programming. hehe, looks like I got a bit carried away there, but my fingers was itchy after 2 days of being stuck offline.
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#27281 - 03/13/02 02:03 AM
Re: What is ur excuse?
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Le4rner
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I got into computer through video Games. I was addicted to Video Games. Then My father bought a brand spanking new 286 P.C. This thing is so old now. Put it this way, instead of windows it has GeoWorks OS installed, It did had DOS on it though. I was drawn to it. I started reading all the books that came with it and found one on this language that was per-installed on the machine. GW-Basic It was an early basic language you had to number each line. 10 cls
20 print "Type your name here"
30 input = a$
40 color = 05
40 print "hello a$ this is GW-Basic"
50 end
My first program ever was something like that. Not sure if that would even work now. But I was totaly addicted to a new video Game after I wrote this little good for nothing program. I felt the power of creation and more than that, I felt possibility. The only limit I saw was imagination. Since then there have been many many changes, but I have yet to lose intrest.
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#27283 - 03/13/02 08:34 PM
Re: What is ur excuse?
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Mornse
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Well, I got started with computers via what else...games. I played them over at my friends places untill i convinced my parents to get a computer also. The first we got was a mac, that must have been about, geez, 7 years ago maybe. I didn't really do much on that other than school work and games. Didn't even have an internet connection. I really got started when my dad got a windows box so he could work out of home, an internet connection too  . I started just playing games with this box also. Then it was making web pages for my clans in the games. I ran a few different websites by myself and with friends. Then came my interest in "hackers". I thought it would be cool if i could break into other people's computers, and I assumed there was just a few things you had to do and that's what hacking was. I search altavista for "how to hack" and so on. Luckily, as with blackh0le, the guides to harmless hacking. These led me along the right path. I got a shell account and stuff. Started reading and then cam across UGN. And this is where I have learned 99% of what I know. I owe a lot to UGN for the knowledge I have gained from the people here. Thanx!
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#27290 - 03/15/02 10:46 AM
Re: What is ur excuse?
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fearme3
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I met Curse. **** you Curse, heh
Fear me for I am the one and only goddess.
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#27292 - 03/19/02 04:16 PM
Re: What is ur excuse?
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HighLander
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I got into computers a long time ago, when my Father started showing me around the system, and once I had sucked all the knowledge that he had out of him, I continued to advance my knowledge and have just been hooked since then, I started taking Computer Operations, Programming, Communications, Networking, Unix, Hardware, Software Classes, everything I could think off. I then took a job with Cisco Networking, and then left them to work for the Canadian Army, in communications, stuff like Computer Admin, Programming, EW (Electronic Warfare) and a whole bunch of other ****. I started coming to UGN a long time ago, back when Beard ran it, and when SR was a frequent vistor, but then got sent away on an oversea's mission, so I was gone for a while, then came back. Now im here........ 
Unless you try something to which you have not already succeeded ~ Then you shall NEVER grow
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Okay WTF?
by HenryMiring on 09/27/17 08:45 AM
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