‘psionicarchon’ responds to my earlier video asking Are Computers for Kids?

I used to be a frequent chat member, not sure if anyone ever noticed me stopping by. You had asked at the end of your video if there was anyone out there any kids you had said. I am currently 16 years old I will be turning 17 tomorrow and while I do enjoy excessive gaming that desire to gaming led me down a very different path. It led me into the realm of server hosting.

Give or take at about 7 years of age I was building and taking apart computers my first main pc was an old Packard Bell with a 75 megahertz processor and 2 megabytes of memory but it served well to get me involved and knowledgeable on basic to average computing.

Back to the servers, I got sucked into a game called unreal tournament 2004, downloaded a demo of the game, absolutely loved it, went out the next day and purchased the full version and made sure all of my friends did the same thing. At first I was just interested with playing the game I never payed much attention to the actual servers I was playing on until I came across a few that supported mods. That got me thinking and I said to myself.. well why don’t I put up my own fun server. I spent about a week grabbing every mod I could find for the game, setting up custom systems for example “zounds” which played audio based on what you typed in and played it over the server if you enabled it. If I said hello1 it would play a clip of Homer Simpson. I had also gone through the trouble of putting in extra maps and a fully functional voting system that allowed players to turn modifications on and off, switch maps, and even vote to have an annoying player kicked from the server. It was a huge success and I had so much fun doing it from then on I kept improving it and branching out.

I set up a voice chat system, made a pay pall account, and had began to send out fliers in the local lan center. I was doing this at the early age of 14.

My next step. World of Warcraft, when this came out unreal kind of died or began to slowly so of course I had to branch out which I did. Through early c++ an emulator was written that allowed people to host their own world of Warcraft servers and I jumped all over that. It even let me get my feet wet in putting up websites as a basic web server was built into the emulator.

Now at pretty much age 17 I have spent the past few weeks working day and night in getting back into that server hosting environment. I put together a website with a few web pages, a blog, and a set of forums run on the vbulletin software. All this is hosted by me.

Your show gave me some inspiration to throw up or work on putting up a live streaming broadcast of my own covering much of the same material, tech stuff. It will also give the people that decide to be part of and help move along this community I’ve been working so hard to set up.

This takes me to the last bits of this long email, what exactly my plans are at age 17. I hope to one day be able to offer a web hosting service that is not only 100% free for its users but virtually restriction less. As you know most free hosting services force you to use a specific domain name (as you will see by my current domain). They also force you to put their adds up on your website or whatever program it is they are hosting for you. I hope to provide a means around that.

If people need a website of their own design put up or perhaps one of my design based on their ideas or whatever it is they ask me to make I will do it and I will host it rule free, restriction free, and hopefully hassle free. The only adds that will be up are adds on “my” website aka the main page.

Game server, Vent or VoIP server – I hope to be able to host it free of charge.

Going back to the live stream it will allow the people using my service to communicate with me easily, live, and nearly all the time. I will broaden the web page to accompany multiple streams at a single time, couple of close friends who participating in helping me out with this whole thing.

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