This was my personal homepage. For a brief time it ran on a colocated server in Spain, but for most of its life it was hosted on my own web servers running in my apartment in Tokyo. It had travel photos from Japan and Barcelona, free @ag0ny.com email accounts, MSX computer programs, desktop wallpapers, and a blog about my life as a Catalan expat discovering Japan.
The content was ordinary. The context was not. If you knew the IRC channels where the URL circulated, or the people I hung out with, the subtext was clear enough.
ag0ny was my IRC nickname in Spain's computer security scene during the late '90s and early 2000s. I was working at an ISP and I spent my nights on IRC with a small, close-knit community of people who were into computer and network security. Some of them are now well-known security researchers and professionals. I was lucky to be around them and to call them friends.
My daily driver back then was octospider, a custom-built laptop running FreeBSD. These are actual screenshots from 2004.
Catalan journalist and author Mercè Molist interviewed me (as ag0ny) for her research into the history of hacking in Spain. The project became Hackstory — a chronicle of the Spanish and Latin American hacking scene.
ag0ny.com was active from 2000 to around 2006. Shortly after, I let the domain expire and it was cybersquatted. It sat on a parking page for nearly two decades before I was finally able to recover it.
This page exists so the domain doesn't sit empty again. It's now hosted in a container on my home lab, just like the old days — except the servers have gotten a lot quieter.
Find me at
lavandeira.net →I go by my real name now. That's where I post.