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title: "The Star Wars - Kid Gets An Upgrade"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/19/the-star-wars-kid-gets-an-upgrade.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/5/19/the-star-wars-kid-gets-an-upgrade.html"
published: "2003-05-19T07:56:00"
updated: "2003-05-19T07:56:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Guilty about laughing at a geeky teenager whose private video has been downloaded millions of times off the Net, a pair of webloggers is raising money for the young man they call the 'Star Wars Kid.' By Leander Kahney.…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
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# The Star Wars - Kid Gets An Upgrade

By Roy Osherove May 19, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published May 19, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

Guilty about laughing at a geeky teenager whose private video has been downloaded millions of times off the Net, a pair of webloggers is raising money for the young man they call the 'Star Wars Kid.' By Leander Kahney.

\[via [Wired](http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58881,00.html)\]
 

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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