What would you do if you were 16 again?

1993: Try to get my parents to get internet access as soon as it comes local. (Mommy, I'll pay, it's just $10.00 a month for unlimated access!) Then start making a lot of web sites, get them all listed in Yahoo with in two weeks of submiting them, start registering domains in 1996, and then make a killing until the Internet Gold Rush dies in 2001. Then retire.

 

me too.. i would have started in the biz at that age.. so that probably by this time, i'm making really big in the business.

 

Have you ever tried to raise funds to start a decent business at this age? People look at you like your full of it. I need to get a really job just to start a nice little business to get me through college. A business where I sleep and make money, that is.

 

hrmmm i think all you guys who want to make money are great... I guess I just got lucky. I just wanted to make sites that were cool and people found useful. The same thing I been doing for 10 years.

The only difference now is I put ads on them and make some money.

 

Ahhh....sixteen, such a momentous year.

I definitely would have NOT stayed with the alcoholic abusive boyfriend (didn't know any better at the time since that runs in my family and I guess that's how I thought people just were). It also would have been nice to have graduated from highschool (this also had something to do with the family as mentioned above).

Other than that, I was pretty darn happy to be living near the beach in Santa Cruz. I don't think the Internet existed back then.

 

I'll change some of my courting strategy. (I think that's where I really fucked up)

 

I think I'd do similar to Shoemoney and smindsrt -- chase more girls.

In fact, in real life, I vowed I would save myself for my wife, and I did. If I went back to 16 now, I'd be a slut. I'd use condoms, but I swear to God I would find oats and sow the Hell out of them.

-Tony

 

I have a friend that recently got married and he and his wife is fairly young. They are both always complaining about they both wish they would had slept with more people before they got married.

I grew up in the country in a little town and the only thing to do in the town is drinking, fighting, and f*&cking. Fortunately, I don’t drink and it seemed like not many people wanted to fight a big country boy so…

I think if I would have had less sex growing up and invested all that energy into something productive I would probably be ruler of the entire world or at least have my site finished.

 

Hey dreamshop, Santa cruz has some awesome beaches. I have lived in felton, boulder creek, scotts valley and other areas until I moved to oregon.

I miss the beach, but not the crowded, hectic life.

trade-offs.

 

Santa Cruz is hectic? My memories of Santa Cruz are so nice, slow, and calm. Sunday was always the best day. I would go to Bookshop Santa Cruz and get a small press magazine with weird stories or writerly poems, and then head to Pizza My Heart. I'd get a big, greasy slice of pepperoni & mushroom pizza, and then lounge around reading and occassionally looking up to watch some lesbians kiss each other.

Good times.

-Tony

 

PIZZA MY HEART!!!!!

Now y'all got me feeling sentimental.

Omg...I'm jonzing for a greasy feta and sundried tomoato slice. The lesbians were great too, and all the little blond surfer boyz. Santa Cruz is also the only place in the world where you can get Pink Godzilla sushi...which is THE best sushi! Do you guys remember the Cooper House? That was my fav pace to hang out. Then the earthquake took it away.


Debunked, I spent many a day romping around the mountains in Felton, not to mention Scotts Valley. I was just talking to someone the other day and telling them about the old Santa's Village mushrooms. My stepsister actually has one in her garden.

 

This has to be one of the best sentences I've read on DP in a while. It makes me happy.

 

Yes I remember going to Santas village as a kid, then we moved to north Idaho for 10 years (on and off) then back again.

Those mushrooms are a purmanent image in my brain, I can't get rid of them. I even drove around the lot before the built borland or whatever is there now. The mushrooms were still scattered around for a while.

My parents even have pictures of us there.

I went surfing about a month after the earthquake and was attacked by a floating cond0m --- eeewwww yuck, that was worse than any shark!!

What school did you last go to?

 

I was Borland's Webmaster from 1996-1998. That was a good place to work. I now work with Borland's old VP of Marketing on a new project.

Santa's Village was hilarious. I thought it was the sweetest irony that Santa's Village was CLOSED ON CHRISTMAS.

-Tony

 

I wouldn't smoke tobacco.

I would work on the internet with a computer and learn as much about the web and coding as I could; in between all the wild stuff (like Mella). I think I would still do that 'cause it was an absolute riot and I lived through it (just, a few times) to tell the tale.

 

I grew up in Gilroy and we used to visit Santa's Village every year. Well, that was a long time ago now.

In the summer I really miss the area.

 

See...isn't is cool that here on DP of all places you can run into folks who grew up in the same place? That makes me happy!!!


I went to Aptos high and Cabrillo college, before moving on to other places of learning (like University of Oklahoma..don't ask). I like to think that the best education I ever got was spending weekends selling at the Santa Cruz flea market. My dad started taking us there when I was six. I remember sleeping in the camper while my dad set stuff up in the fog.

In relation to this thread...the first job I had, besides helping my dad's biz, was working at the drive in movie theatre there. I was sixteen

 

Most of my schooling was in Idaho, but graduated at Soquel High in 89....

 

I'm older than you dude! I was getting my degree at Cabrillo then. Ahhh, '89...what a year that was. I miss the old pacific garden shops. It's too big box corporate now. Bleh.



Sorry for hijacking the conversation folks.

 

Cumbernauld. CUMBERNAULD! Go on. One person step up and shock my socks off! I am happy that no-one on DP knows me from my pimply and uncomfortabe youth.