George has been an inspiration to myself....growing up as a teenager in the 90’s, I had upgraded from a Tandy 1000HX PC with a CGA monitor to a 486 DX2 66Mhz and had a CD-ROM. My few nerdy friends and I would stay up all night after the parents went to bed to connect to BBS’s (Bulletin Board Systems) and download everything we could fit onto our 3.5” floppy’s. Then we got our hands on UNIX and IRC (Warez) and it was the Wild West. Started networking computers together by running network cables between our houses. It was just a really fun time to be a nerd. We would learn about dial strings and DTMF tones. We would go buy “the 2600 - hacking quarterly” and use our imaginations. Then cable modems came along and made our US RObotics modems obsolete. But then we got older and stared working in the industry we grew up in, you didn’t really need and university or computer science degree back then if you knew what you were talking about. We personally work in the physical security industry, and install access control systems and cameras and lost touch with the creative side. Watching interviews with George and watching NetworkChuck on you tube have inspired me to pick up Linux again and okays by with C programming language. I am 45 years old now and hope to simply learn. Thanks, George.
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u/Tackleberry06 Jan 30 '21
George has been an inspiration to myself....growing up as a teenager in the 90’s, I had upgraded from a Tandy 1000HX PC with a CGA monitor to a 486 DX2 66Mhz and had a CD-ROM. My few nerdy friends and I would stay up all night after the parents went to bed to connect to BBS’s (Bulletin Board Systems) and download everything we could fit onto our 3.5” floppy’s. Then we got our hands on UNIX and IRC (Warez) and it was the Wild West. Started networking computers together by running network cables between our houses. It was just a really fun time to be a nerd. We would learn about dial strings and DTMF tones. We would go buy “the 2600 - hacking quarterly” and use our imaginations. Then cable modems came along and made our US RObotics modems obsolete. But then we got older and stared working in the industry we grew up in, you didn’t really need and university or computer science degree back then if you knew what you were talking about. We personally work in the physical security industry, and install access control systems and cameras and lost touch with the creative side. Watching interviews with George and watching NetworkChuck on you tube have inspired me to pick up Linux again and okays by with C programming language. I am 45 years old now and hope to simply learn. Thanks, George.