My First Habr Post: Creating a Wi-Fi Hotspot with Windows netsh

In 2011 Habr was a closed community.
You could not just register and start writing or commenting. First, you needed an invite.

One practical way to get an invite was to write a good technical article and hope that someone will give you an invite for that.
So I wrote my first post in 2011 and published it to the "sandbox" section:

https://habr.com/ru/articles/130271/

The post is in Russian, but the topic is simple:
how to turn a Windows 7 laptop into a small Wi-Fi hotspot and share internet from a USB 3G modem.

I used the built-in Windows tool netsh wlan to create and start a hosted network,
and then I shared the internet connection (ICS) to this Wi-Fi network.

Luckily, I got an invite for that post and was able to publish it to the main section. Today Habr is different and everyone can just register and start writing. I believe that the previous approach was better. The community was healthier and more respectful because of the karma system and strict rules.

Anyway, this first post is still important for me. It was one of the first times I wrote a technical guide publicly on such a popular platform.

P.S. Years later, I noticed that this article appeared in the top 100 most read articles on Habr - https://habr.com/ru/articles/372321/ . It was a nice surprise and a good reminder that simple practical topics can stay useful for a long time.