i used to hang out on BBS's when i was in 5th grade if anyone is old-school enough to know what i'm talking about you're 1337 ;D heheh i hung out on all kinds of local boards.. anyway about a year later messing with that, i became interested in the public libraries' local directory system and through that they gave free internet access...it was limited because when you dialed in you could pretty much only use terminal sessions..and it was all commandline driven.. and so i got crazy with telnet, learned basic commands and whatnot, and then i started messing with basic unix stuff through that. I played a few MUDs but they're pretty boring.. uhm in middle school i got into more of the hardware side of things. i worked in the library fixing the computers and making cables. i gained a very loose comprehension of networking here. since then i went through high school and took cisco classes for 2 years. i have competed in national computer competitions and score reasonably high. i got 16th in the microsoft network administration, and 5th in the network design team nationally. and state wide i got first in computer network technologies, first in network design team, third in information systems, second in cisco network administration, and second in pc servicing and troubleshooting. i'm not really the best at anything..i'm just a farily broad based kinda kid.. i suck ass at math so a lot of you guys have a much better understanding of that. i don't consider myself very intelligent, i just have a reeeeaallly obsessive passion for computers.


for anyone who read through my lifes history, props to you!.. lol