While growing up, I was always one of the smartest kids in my classes, and -due to the fact that my dad was an electrical engineer who was in charge of making sure the computers at power plants were always working properly and that I grew up in the late 90s- I was also something of a computer nerd. All of my classmates knew this (I graduated with a high school class of 199 - everyone knew everyone). My mom is also the Spanish teacher at the high school, so I was often getting to do things that other students didn't have the opportunity to do, like work on projects using school systems long after school hours.
I was good enough with computers that I actually managed to hack the school's network at my high school to get around their website blocking tools (not actually very hard...this was 2003 and I wouldn't call their network secure. Everything was just "hidden" rather than inaccessible to student logins). I would use this method all the time to surf whatever websites I wanted after school hours as I'd wait for my mom to be ready to go home.
And while doing this, being a 14-year-old girl just discovering her sexuality, I would occasionally search for provocative pictures to look at. Now, none of it was actual porn. Nobody was ever naked, but even so it was eventually my downfall. Some keyword I searched for eventually triggered a monitoring bot, and then the IT guy saw what I was doing.
So I was called into the principal's office one day during school and was basically only yelled at for the provocative pictures (nary a word about me breaking into the main system). But the interesting part is what happened next.
Everyone in my class had heard that I'd been called to the office, and since I never got in trouble and my mom was a teacher, a rumor began to spread that there was a problem with the school's computers and they had called on me to fix it. This rumor persisted throughout all four years of high school (and some of them may still believe it to this day). During my junior year, I was actually recruited to help reconfigure the network security since I had bypassed it so easily (and because everyone knew I was an expert, even though I wasn't).
And that is the story of how a horny girl looking at pictures on the internet caused everyone to think she was a computer genius.
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