As I reach 7 years I look back to how it all started
Being 14 years old and a diablo 2 player, I thought to myself man these item shops make a lot of money I bet. So I figured I'd learn a little html and try to be them. Then I realized wow they are getting wayyy more items then me wtf how do they do that.
So I found Google, the key to all that is.
Quickly I found d2jsp, and other websites that shall not be mentioned in modern day. So within a few days I figured out how to not play diablo at the same time on 10 different accounts, wow life was good. Speaking of WoW, that was a good game I thought, but it costs money every month and I'm trying to save for a car. So I found private servers, and played on them for a couple months.
Then it hit me, man I should just make my own private server, so I went to the fountain of truth and knowledge, Google.
From here I found a very popular gaming forum that also had private server stuff. It was a rage zone. Within days, I had a private server up and running, and people slowly came. Within months, thousands of people were playing and buying items to be filthy cheaters but it made me so happy. From this I learned a little bit of LUA and SQL stuff, perfect to get me started.
At around 16 I said you know what, fuck school I'm already making money and they don't teach me shit, so I got my G.E.D and passed every section with 100%. My writing section they asked me to base a story off a hero, fictional or non fictional, so I based it off of Mike Hunt. Mike was a mexican dairy farmer who came to the U.S. illegally and worked on a farm to provide for his family, showing true heroism and family values.
Now a free 16 year old, running a WoW private server, I was living the dream. The server lasted a while, almost until I was 18.
Now came the real challenge, I have to get a job. So I went to craigslist, looking for a job doing SQL stuff, found a job at a small company that does property management.
I was making and maintaining their databases for records and exporting daily reports to excel for them. Soon they wanted more, they always want more. So I ended up having to learn VB.Net in order to make a data entry client for them.
I knew what needed to be done and I went to the most sacred thing to me, Google.
Within days, I was speaking computer english ( VB.Net ) fluently, it was amazing. Months later, they now have a data management client for all their needs. But then again, they wanted more, much more. They needed information off thousands of websites through a program, something far beyond my skills.
Google knew though, Google always knows.
I found code snippets of web scrapers using WebBrowser objects and HTTPRequest all sorts of crazy alien stuff. But they were all in C#, a foreign language to me.
Once again I made a sacrifice to Google and was gifted with knowledge. These web scraping, information thieving programs were running within months. They thought I was so good, they promoted me quarterly. By the time I was a 21 year old high school dropout, I was making $20/hr.
But it wasn't me, it was all Google.
I am still at this same company today, almost 25. I am the head of their I.T. department and making what they call salary. I would like to thank Google, vbf, rzone, diablo 2, wow, and d2jsp. I am fluent in VB, VB.Net, C, C#, HTML, and MVC. Without those previously mentioned none of this would be possible and I'd probably be homeless or selling dope.
tldr;
d2 is good, wow sucks, fuck school, Google #1, fuck yahoo, fuck msn, fuck bing, fuck 12, Google #1, fake it til u make it
This post was edited by t9x on May 16 2017 08:07am