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The Internet own boy
- 2. This is a Story
- 3. This is a Story About a boy named Aaron
- 4. Aaron was a prodigy A prodigy of the internet
- 5. unexcited about making money and businesses But Aaron was Truly
- 6. He just wanted to make the world a better place
- 7. Aaron started like a normal boy Like everyone,
- 8. Aaron
- 9. all very bright He had 3 brothers
- 10. at a really young age But Aaron learn to learn
- 11. Learning
- 12. By himself!! He learn to read at age 5
- 13. he started with computers Around the same age
- 15. theinfo.com At age 12 he built a website
- 16. It let users write articles and edit the information they thought it was bad theinfo
- 18. He won a price for the website
- 20. And became involved on the web
- 21. And started to work on RSS
- 23. At age 13!
- 24. He built the plumbing for all RSS
- 25. And got more involve
- 26. RSS convention
- 27. He hated high school
- 28. and drop several times
- 29. And was more interested on the Internet
- 30. He was also very interest in Copyright
- 32. And the internet collided And antique copyright system
- 33. And he was going to fix it
- 34. about copyright He went to the Supreme Court hearing
- 35. Supreme Court
- 36. And learn about
- 39. Aaron handle all the “computer parts”
- 40. He wrote the specifications and infrastructure
- 41. He was 15
- 42. At the CC launch
- 43. In 2005 he drop from college
- 44. And got into Y Combinator
- 47. With 4 friends he started a little website
- 48. A website called
- 49. Reddit
- 50. And quickly was bought by another company
- 51. Now, money was not something to worry about
- 52. Ever...
- 53. He was 18 years old
- 54. But he didn't care much about money
- 56. He hated working for a Corporation
- 57. And quickly got himself fired
- 58. After a while he started working on other projects
- 61. OpenLibrary.org
- 62. Having access to public information was very important for Aaron
- 63. Aaron vs the Pacer System
- 64. The Pacer system is where all the federal court records are stored
- 65. What is pacer?
- 66. So what Aaron did?
- 67. he
- 68. Pacer was free in some libraries of some states
- 69. Python FTW!
- 70. recursively downloaded all documents Aaron wrote a script that
- 71. Aaron was scouted by the FBI but did not press charges
- 72. had to change their policies about the documents And ultimate the government
- 73. His passion for knowledge and libraries kept going
- 74. And began to look and academic articles
- 75. The Jstor case
- 76. All the work, the knowledge is lock away
- 78. Aaron got into MIT and realize that they had access to those articles
- 79. He got into MIT and register and new labtop
- 80. and again, Python FTW!
- 81. Because Wifi was slow he plugged his PC to the network
- 82. But they found it...
- 84. They didn't unplug it
- 85. They didn't turn it off
- 86. They installed a camera...
- 87. Police arrest him shortly
- 88. And the investigation was taken over by the Secret Service
- 89. And was being charge as a “terrorist”
- 90. As a “hacker”
- 91. And described as a thief
- 92. It was bad timing for Aaron
- 93. Wikileaks had just started leaking
- 94. Bradley Manning had leaked info
- 95. So Aaron got all the attention of the Criminal System
- 96. He was offered a deal if he plead guilty
- 97. 5 years and 1 million dollars!
- 98. He was used to set an Example!!
- 99. He rejected the deal!
- 100. In the mean time, while the case was worked out
- 101. Aaron became the go to person of internet things
- 102. And was in the news a lot
- 103. But not always for good things
- 104. On July 14, 2014 Aaron was indicted on 4 felony charges
- 105. And they arrested him and put him in solitary confinement
- 106. He is now facing 35 YEARS in prison
- 107. Later that day he is release by paying 100,000 bale
- 108. The same day Jstor drop the charges and decline to keep the case
- 109. But the government will keep the case
- 110. They wanted to make an example out of Aaron
- 111. But he continue to be outspoken about internet issues
- 112. Now against a bill to control the internet
- 113. SOPA
- 115. Copyright?
- 116. SOPA ?
- 117. He setup a VOIP service to call Congress
- 118. Million on people called
- 119. And congress become to wonder...
- 123. And Aaron Won!
- 125. But the happiness was not long
- 126. A year after it, Aaron was arrested
- 127. They added 13 felony counts
- 128. He was isolated from friends and family
- 129. He was restricted in every way
- 130. Aaron rejected the plea deal and a trial date was set
- 131. He got depressed under all the pressure
- 132. And the worst happened
- 133. The world has lost one of the great minds of our generation
- 134. We can all change the world!
Editor's Notes
- This is the goberment
- We are leaving in a time when with programming, we can change the world About the people that we base our work on If you dream it you can build it Cancer and JStor