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by rudasn 4938 days ago
ha! That's exactly how I started a bit more than 10 years ago. IRC, geocities, and a bunch of ugly websites.

My father always used to say "Leave the computer alone and do your homework. No one will pay you for 'playing' on the computer".

5 years later he was my first paying client. Nowadays people only pay me when I "play with my computer".