When I was 12 I was really interested in the Internet and extremely interested by large mainframe type computers, I don’t really know why but the immense power of these huge computers intrigued me. I would always visit sites about "legacy" hardware (very old sometimes ancient computer systems).

One day I stumbled upon a site that had pictures of a typical late 70's mainframe. I looked around on the site and saw that the owner’s e-mail address was at the bottom. I e-mailed the given address and asked a few questions about the computer, and the owner’s name was Jon. About three days later he replied and gave me his user name for a “chat” service so we could talk. We talked for a very long time and it turned out his father was big time into setti

Soon we decided to try to make some money, so we signed up for an Affiliate program. The program worked much like TV commercials do, companies put ads onto our sites, and our users sites, and every time someone clicked an ad we were paid a nickel. At first, it didn’t seem like much, but as you will soon see, it adds up. For the next two months I learned a lot more about computers and the Internet than I would have any other way – with a real life experience. There were a lot of people trying to rip us off, people putting up illegal programs, and people removing ads from their site. I ended up designing software to scan the entire site for things like this and it ended up working out well.

After setting it all up, an old friend and I designed the website for our business. My friend’s name was Leenas, he is Hawaiian and I met him when I lived there. We had decided to name it Freeze Webhosting, the reasoning behind this is that we already owned Freeze2k.com and did not want to have to buy another domain [web address]. All of this went well for the first month.

Then someone decided to try to hack our business, someone from Mexico got into our computer and re-routed everything to “fbi.gov”. He then proceeded to bomb [bombing sends to much information to a computer and makes it crash] our server, which made our server bomb “fbi.gov”…needless to say; this caused a lot of confusion that I won’t get into.

We spent about three weeks fixing everything, then one day I tried to login and couldn’t. I e-mailed Jon and asked what was going on, he said I was trying to ruin the business and that he no longer needed my help. He also did this to the other person who worked with us. We were mad about this but it seemed we couldn’t do much because we had no written agreements.

count because of his dad’s work position.

After we finally cleared that up, we decide

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