User:SPA12KY

Correct use and spelling: -=S.P.A.R.K.Y.=-

This Sparky alias was created in 2005, a matric learner in the RSA. His first visit was at a mobile chat site called prodigits. There he met some new friends while in chat rooms with some of his current friends. His site there is http://sprky.prodigits.co.uk/. He later joined mcommunity.biz and created http://blitsie-sparky.mcommunity.biz. He was also seen at http://twilightwap.com/ for a while.

In his Matric holiday, he joined the-zone.co.uk. After two weeks he became one of the moderators, and became site admin a month after that. The site soon went down, and in November 2008 the owner started a new site that is still running: http://hiphop-zone.com.

In 2006 he created his own DC++ hub in the University of Stellenbosch. This was used for his friends and himself to communicate in private, later the group grew. In 2007 he became admin of the main DC++ hub on campus, Orion Hub. He designed the hub’s tab menu, and the hub expanded into an unofficial IT support hub, as some of the admin users (including himself) worked for the Student IT department. At the end of 2008 Sparky became the new Orion Hub owner, as the former owner moved to London.

Orion Hub later had its own website running, its own mailing list, and email accounts, its own address for quick connect, and a very effective download group that will not be mentioned (this group did not include Sparky). The Hub’s bot also grew a lot in the first year. It could sent offine PM’s to other users, had a mailbox for every user, had news headlines, feed for new downloads, and many more!

At the end of 2008 Orion became so well known (nationally and internationally) that the University’s IT department received a threat from SAFACT, and they started scanning the network for DC++ Hubs. After two weeks of searching (scaning for known open DC++ ports), they found 8 of the 20 public servers and none of the 3 private servers. Then they switched off the network points of these 8 servers without sending out a warning to the owners (which were all students at the time). An email was sent to the IT department that same night, complaining about the students not being able to use their computers for work, and they couldn’t do any of their research. They had to walk a few blocks in the dark (and in dangerous areas at the time) to the public computer areas. The next day IT sent out an email to the 8 users informing them that the network points will be activated, but they have about a month to arrange a meeting with the IT director.

(more information will be added soon)