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story based on life

Once upon a time, in a small village of Niedrzwica Duża, lived a boy named Michał. To make this story easier to read for English-speaking people, we'll call him Michi. Michi looooved everything computers. Michi loved programming, video games, website design (though he was crap at making websites look good). In 2010, Michi found an offer of an international hosting provider 1&1 that was just joining the Polish market. They were giving away a domain, 1000 subdomains, 10 GB of disk space, 10x1GB MySQL databases, 10x1GB e-mail accounts. All that for free! (Back then Michi wanted to launch a super-awesome social network based on WordPress and BuddyPress. Don't blame him, he was 12.) So Michi, after discussing it with parents, got himself such package for stunning 0 dollars, with domain name ijestfajnie.pl. ("i jest fajnie" meant "and it's cool") But that's not much important, y'know. The hosting thing is here for comparison.

A year later Michi went to middle school. How surprised he was when he saw his school's website (gimnazjumniedrzwica.pl). A metatag in the header was saying the creation date of the site was back in year 2003! And the site was opening in a frame! Also, the server was running Slackware 9! Michi was truly terrified. How come, he was saying to himself, is the teacher breaking the most basic rules of security? I must save the school website, he oathed.

He began by (miraculously) getting the teacher to switch to Slackware 12 (which still wasn't new, but always somewhat better).

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