Matthew Murphy

Born in 1979, I grew up doing construction. From dirt lots to multi unit and single family dwellings to remodeling apartment buildings and houses. I also wired houses for phone lines on the side.

In 1989 I got my first computer, A Commodore 64 and then it happened. Thanksgiving of 1994. We went to San Jose California to have dinner with my Uncle Tom. We came home to our home being broken into and all my dads power tools stolen. We hadn't been doing any construction so instead of replacing it. My parents bought a Performa 635CD.

I got my hands onto a CD rom, installed AOL and this was an era where Internet cost $3.95 an hour. I learned how to exploit AOL and I learned about credit card seeds, how to make fake accounts that nobody ever paid for, how to access free areas of AOL to keep the clock from counting and access any area of it. I then began to learn to code html.

In middle school, I took Student Leadership and learned about how to run meetings and vote we also taught the special needs kids how to use programs like Kid Pix

High School, I continued with Student Leadership and ran for a Student Body (ASB) office and won. It was my job to manage the student store for two years in a row.

Discovered IRC, Some how landed up on an Australian Chat Server and meet Jarod Crane Who later came to the US and we actually hung out, As I did with Marcus Wilson who I went to DocuWorld with that Xerox put us up in a hotel and then went to Apple Computer and meet Steve Jobs for a meeting with the company Marcus worked for Docu something... their version of our Kinkos

This is also about the time when I started my first (adult) website. Was selling ram on ebay for Apple Computers and Doing graphic Design at Woodruff Regional Occupational Center
Then ADSL came out, I found a location where we could get service and got my parents to move.

Jarrod and I built a site called stocktonline.com (I live in Stockton) eStockton.com after only 1 month of development got a bit scared and offered to buy me out for $15,000... I took it. They wanted me to come work for them, I told them $65 an hour. They hired me for a month. I was 16... Life was good.

Then I started owning dozens of computers. Buying them at auctions, fixing, trading swapping... Started going to college taking business courses and some programming corses and a unix (yes, unix not linux) Took a Cisco Networking Classes.