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Computers...

Ahh Computer's. Don't we all love them? I've been a computer geek since somwhere in 1993, or 94.. Technically, ive played with computers for longer than that, my father had an Atari computer for years, probably before i was even old enough to read, in fact, I learned the alphabet on a TI. I didn't know enough about them to be concidered a geek though, until i got my own PC in 1995. My father got a decent PC about two years earlier, so technically, i started down the road to Geekdom around 1993 or so. He passed his old Atari on to me, and I used it for BBSing, and other modem to modem communication. It was fun! The PC that i got in 1995, was a Gateway 2000 486. Served me well, and now, its running MY bbs, The Underground BBS which is a mutation of the old CyberSpace 7 BBS.

See, CS7 was a major Geek hangout back in the day. In 1999 or so it went down, the sysop claimed that the software wasnt Y2K compliant. So I was forced to find another Tele-Arena fix. I went hunting, and found a copy of the same BBS software CS7 was running, and a copu of Tele-Arena, and i put up my own BBS on my home LAN. Opened it up to a select few friends and things just so we could play the games we loved. Well, i couldnt find everything that CS7 had. But it was fun anyway. My BBS was called "The Underground" (thats where i got my domain, undrground.org, just in case i ever took it public). Well, out of frustration, not being able to find the games i really wanted to add to the BBS, I went to the guy who previously owned CS7. He run's a computer shop in the area now. I was in there to pick something up, and decided to ask what ever happend to CS7. He said, almost comically, that it was sitting in a box in the back room! So, I asked him nicely if he wold be willing to sell it all to me. He agree'd and i became the new owner of CS7! So, now came the task of re-incarnating CS7. He gave me a series of tape backup's that supposedly were done shortly before he shut it all down for the last time. So with the jhelp of a friend, i managed to get the tape's restored, mostly, and the result was a somewhat functional CS7! So, I took my existing BBS, The Underground, and incorporated the new files from CS7, and came out, 6 hours later, with the Cyberspace 7 Underground! Really did work out well. You can visit the BBS by clicking on the link above. It's free, for now, not sure if it'll ever be subscription based. Its more or less just a hobby of mine. :)

In 1997 or so i started putzing with Linux, as an alternative to Micro$oft's evil empire. I started with RedHat 5.0, based on the suggestion of a self proclaimed hacker that I ran across on ICQ. Weather he was a hacker or not I may never know, but he DID know linux. He helped me learn in my initial days of this OS, and im very grateful for that. If only I could remember his name. I've since tried quite a few distro's of linux, but i keep returning to RedHat. Over the years I've learned quite a bit about Linux, and I even run it as a primary OS on my PC at home. It dual-boots Windows 2000 and RedHat 9. I am still tied to Windows for gaming, and a few other applications that I'm not ready to give up. Other than a few apps, and games of course, I can do just about anything i could want to do in linux that i could do in Windows. And do it with more stability!