One of the first things I did at that age whenever changing schools was to set up a couple proxies to get around SonicWall or whatever my school would be using. I added a link to my Facebook and usually a funny pic from around the web to the landing page... definitely one of the easiest ways for an introvert to get others to remember their name...
Edit: Oddly, nobody from the schools ever called me out on it despite PII on the page and the WHOIS data (I was using personal domains at that point, .com and .info). I can't remember if Tor ever worked, but back then it was slow as hell anyway because even the school's "high-speed" connection wasn't close by today's standards.
Further edit: I was trying to learn PHP at the time, and was using some existing scripts along with dinky little modifications. It wasn't malicious, but a couple times it was fun to manually post stats for which sites were the most visited. The type of sites people used it for was not surprising. Regrettably I never took it far enough to do anything clever, instead pretty much abandoning code for following couple years.
Fun memories since I'd mostly buried that whole period as "boring, non-technical, and embarrassingly childish" stuff.
Well, you were particularly techy' for that age :) ; It does remind me of my childhood though, and that even in elementary school there is such a thing as the "tech guy".
Edit: Oddly, nobody from the schools ever called me out on it despite PII on the page and the WHOIS data (I was using personal domains at that point, .com and .info). I can't remember if Tor ever worked, but back then it was slow as hell anyway because even the school's "high-speed" connection wasn't close by today's standards.
Further edit: I was trying to learn PHP at the time, and was using some existing scripts along with dinky little modifications. It wasn't malicious, but a couple times it was fun to manually post stats for which sites were the most visited. The type of sites people used it for was not surprising. Regrettably I never took it far enough to do anything clever, instead pretty much abandoning code for following couple years.
Fun memories since I'd mostly buried that whole period as "boring, non-technical, and embarrassingly childish" stuff.