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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by noobermin on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:27PM (#13618116)
I moved in 1998 (ironically) to an isolated island my parents were from and lived there till 2008 and moved back here for college. It was like walking into and out of a time-capsule, I missed the emergence of the internet into what it is today.

I still learned to hack and everything else in Palau regardless, it was just like playing with a handicap, it's still possible to learn and all, it's just harder.

EDIT: to clarify, I didn't have it that bad, there was <20 kbps internet with a monthly total hour cap, but it was expensive and not very reliable and slow.

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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by avar on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:29PM (#13619056) 

    > I still learned to hack and everything else in Palau regardless,
    > it was just like playing with a handicap, it's still possible to
    > learn and all, it's just harder.
But in some ways so much easier. I remember how I treated the Internet before I had a 24/7 connection. I'd make lists of stuff I needed, use my time on the Internet effectively, learn from the material I downloaded and use that to inform my next browsing session.

Whereas now there's so many distractions, case in point me posting on this website right now.

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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by farresito on Friday February 10, 2017 @02:50PM (#13618306)
This place looks amazing. Like really really amazing. A bit off topic, but how much did you enjoy your time there?
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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by bb101 on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:46PM (#13619180)
Palau looks - from pictures and travel brochures - to be incredible. Why did you leave?
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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by JetSpiegel on Friday February 10, 2017 @07:30PM (#13620167)
Not having Internet access, probably.
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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by xuomo on Saturday February 11, 2017 @01:30AM (#13621394)
Coincidentally
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