[Accident Man]

I believe I saw Sinisterly get mentioned on either another forum or a Discord server. I decided to check it out, and now here I am.

[Weaselcarl1842]

I was browsing the interwebs and boom it was there

[flippenflop]

found this place out from reddit. Epic, I know.

[Marshland]

Found it via google or duckduckgo, but i believe on accident. Was searching for some info and this forum came up

[Lifeh]

I was searching for SE methods... This site popped up. So i stayed!

[Accident Man]

I was searching for SE methods... This site popped up. So i stayed!

Blissful that you decided to stick around. You will have a great time here, as well as learn many incipient things!

[mothered]

I was searching for SE methods... This site popped up. So i stayed!

There are many search results returned with keywords used In social engineering parlance.

Welcome aboard.

[Equinox]

8 years and 2 months ago, 12 year old Equinox joined a forum called CodeCommunity.

I was like the 16th or 17th member to join that forum. Shortly thereafter, DiscussionZone bought our CodeCommunity and merged us in.

I want to say like 3 or 4 months later, DZ was bought by Onion, and here I am today.

It’s kind of funny, you can definitely see how I’ve grown over the years on this very forum. I was very much the want-to-be hackerman like most people here, and had next to no experience doing any actual programming. I would toy with JS and such, but that’s just toying, and even then I knew nothing. I was a huge dumbass. Or rather I just didn’t know.

And now I have certifications in CS and two languages from US accredited organizations, I worked as a developer for almost 3 years.

And I don’t use a fucking bit of the experience I got over the years in my job now. Never did ever become the hackerman, lost interest in security a long time ago. So yeah, I’d say this forum was a very large part of my growing up.

[mothered]

8 years and 2 months ago, 12 year old Equinox joined a forum called CodeCommunity.

You've just made me realize my age.

The first board (more so a chat server) was around 1988. I don't recall It by name - too many years have passed.

[Jiggly]

8 years and 2 months ago, 12 year old Equinox joined a forum called CodeCommunity.

I was like the 16th or 17th member to join that forum. Shortly thereafter, DiscussionZone bought our CodeCommunity and merged us in.

I want to say like 3 or 4 months later, DZ was bought by Onion, and here I am today.

It’s kind of funny, you can definitely see how I’ve grown over the years on this very forum. I was very much the want-to-be hackerman like most people here, and had next to no experience doing any actual programming. I would toy with JS and such, but that’s just toying, and even then I knew nothing. I was a huge dumbass. Or rather I just didn’t know.

And now I have certifications in CS and two languages from US accredited organizations, I worked as a developer for almost 3 years.

And I don’t use a fucking bit of the experience I got over the years in my job now. Never did ever become the hackerman, lost interest in security a long time ago. So yeah, I’d say this forum was a very large part of my growing up.

With SL being around for so long, it's crazy to see how many people have literally grown up in the time it's been online. I somewhat count myself among those people. I was relatively young when I found SL too.