Back in 2001, when I was 13.5 years young, my family got a 56k modem. My parents would only allow me to use the web 1 hour a week, so I saved up my allowance, bought a 150' phone cable, drilled a couple 1" holes in the wood floor while my parents were out, and army-crawled under the house to rout the phone cable to my room. I pieced back together a crappy old IBM ThinkPad 600 and would tiptoe to the office to switch the 56k modem over to my rooms cable-hack to play Age of Empires I online for hours on end, sometimes till dawn.

6 years later, during my Freshmen year at SDSU, I received a phone call from my father about some strange holes he discovered in the wood floor while my parents were selling the house. Needless to say, at the time he wasn't thrilled at how stunningly creative I had been in circumventing their moratorium on the internet for 6 years, however in retrospect I now realize routing that cable under the house was one of the best things I ever did as it was in that moment that I fell in love with computers.

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