As an early teen my parents turned off the WiFi router at night and when not in use. I eventually found the neighbor had an exploitable WEP router from an Android app, and I used it to continue watching Minecraft and Happy Wheels videos on Youtube.

[–] BallShapedMan@lemmy.world 40 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

My son did this...

[–] moonshadow@slrpnk.net 91 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

Congrats, pretty sure "mom took away my internet" is the primary entry point for IT professionals

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 weeks ago

For me it was my older brother (who owned the only computer in the house). He had very strict rules about what I could do on his PC but even then he would only leave his room unlocked once a week at most. This was before I even cared for internet so being offline was no big deal.

When I was 13 I managed to talk my way into doing some chores for a neighborhood PC school in exchange for access to computers whenever there was some free spot in any of their classes. A couple years later they opened a Lan House so I worked there and could finally use PCs all day every day. One more year and I was already teaching programming classes there (well, trying to).

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