deepakhj

Crazy to find my old handle listed in the appendix. I was staff on a couple of the top-ranked FTP sites in the US and Europe at the time.

Seeing this sent me down a rabbit hole through the old Net Monkey Weekly Reports. I found interviews, arguments, and stories I had completely forgotten about. My memory of that period is pretty hazy now, but competing at that level was a lot of fun. I never really did it for the software.

I eventually had to quit so I could finish school, and unfortunately I lost touch with almost everyone.

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We used to play the DOS version in AP Computers in HS back in 1994.

I remember putting Street Fighter and Drug Wars on my TI-82.

I haven’t in a bit only because buying a house has stretched me thin, but hope to start putting money in again in a few months.

I've been loading up since 2006-2007... every quarter I get more shares from dividends. Also bought META at IPO.

I only had to sell AAPL/META for a downpayment.

I lived there for 13 years.... loved my officer house

Quiet, safe, neighbors all know each other and hang out. Quick access to Inner Richmond and Marina for food. Walk to Off the Grid (pre COVID) on Thursdays and Sundays. Presidio downtown shuttle takes you to BART/SOMA in 20-30 minutes.

Why can't I see hidden files or folders like .circleci?

That's a tax on new construction which will reduce it. Tax all homeowners equally.

We had weekly scene reports that ranked the FTP sites and groups. It also covered the drama, politics, group mergers or closures, and personal stories (under anonymity though). You got ranked by your performance on the sites that counted towards points. In order to upload files to a top 5 site, you would have to get into release groups and get the "pre", in other words, you get first dibs at uploading the files. Europe had the fastest internet connections especially Swedish and Finnish universities. Top 5 EU FTP sites were the most important. Followed by the top 5 US which were primarily hosted at Internet2 universities such as CMU, Georgia Tech, MIT, and Virginia Tech. These FTP sites were the first place any cracked release would be uploaded to. Almost like the root DNS servers for internet.

I dropped out to focus on college and then all the FBI busts happened. I work in tech now. I lost touch with most people.

I can still find my name and groups in the scene reports that have been archived on defacto2.

I think another attempt to reform prop 13 will happen in 2024.