Thought Overflow

Well, so start off with, we must know what “Bondings” is not his real name. However, he’s too secretive about his full/real name, and I didn’t push too hard to ask him.

Anyway, this interview was conducted on MSN Messenger (no, you may not PM me or ask me either his or my address on MSN Messenger). All text in red is by me, and all text in blue is his. Admittedly, the interview was short… maybe a second round sometime soon?
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—Q1. For the record, do you think you will ever let anyone you’ve only met online ever know your full-name or see your photograph?
—Yes, I do.
—What are the requirements for someone to know your full name or see a photograph or any other personal identifying things?
—If Frihost gets bigger (in a few years) I might have to start a company for it, I am not able to hide my name and things, then.

—Q2. With what aim did you start Frihost and is it living up to what you wanted it to be?
—I wanted my plans and dreams (I have a lot of them) to become reality and hence to start with something realistically possible for me to do at this moment. I wanted to create something useful, something to put my efforts in and realize that it is something I like to do, something I achieved on my own. (of course with help of moderators, but that’s not what I mean)
—May I ask what are the other plans and dreams you have?
—Building a search engine relying solely on some AI techniques, but rather in the form of asking questions, not search terms.
—Any others you’d like to share?
—Not at the moment.

—Q3. Did you expect Frihost to become as popular/successful as it has already become so fast?
—I actually expected it to become more popular, however I didn’t expect it to take so much of my time. To be honest, I stopped promoting it massively a long time ago just because I am currently not able to handle an exponential growth.

—Q4. What do you think are the major factors you attribute to its roaring success?
—Spending and dedicating time on it and promoting it from the start at the right places.

—Q5. What is the one incident about Frihost that you remember with the greatest pride/satisfaction and what is the one incident that you think is the darkest spot in its history?
—The greatest pride was the photoshop ‘contest’ with the alien already a long time ago. The darkest spot, pretty obviously the server crash with data loss.

—Q6. How much of your time does Frihost take up?
(Is it only free time or…?)
(Does it affect your studies?)
—It takes way too much of my time and I don’t want to even think about how much.
—(What about studies?)
—It doesn’t affect them, it does however take almost all my free time

—Q7. What is the future of Frihost? (Where do you realistically see it 5 years down the line, or even 10 years down the line?)
—5 years is a century for things on the internet, in 5 years, Google might be gone, in 10 years the internet as we know it today (html-http protocol) might be gone. I can hardly realistically predict more than a few years. I plan to further code a lot of things making Frihost much easier to manage and spend less time on every different part so that the time I have to spend on it doesn’t exponentially grow. If everything is set up, automated and easy to handle, I can dedicate my time to promote Frihost, set up events, contests and also finally continue with other plans and websites for which I don’t have time at the moment.

—Q8. And what does the future hold for you personally? (What are your plans for the future… if you have made any plans, whether solid or not…?)
—I don’t have any special plans but to graduate at the moment.
—And after that?
—Then I either will create my own company or try to get a job at another one.
—What kind of company are you thinking about?
—I don’t know yet. I have still some time to go.

—Q9. What about the other things that we associate with youth? Are you an activist regarding heavy issues? What are you passionate about…?
—I am currently not really what you can call an ‘activist’ in the strict sense of the word as in protesting on the streets because I currently don’t see a reason to do it in my own country. However I do have some very deeply rooted opinions and I would certainly do everything in my possibility to protest, show my disagreement and other things if I strongly disagree with a certain new legislation/law or feel violated in my own rights.
I am passionate about Frihost at the moment. There aren’t really many other things I can think about.