About the editor...

About the Editor
by: cr1mson@phatstar.org
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Hi'ya everybody!  This is a brief introduction about myself and my passion.
I've been computing since my late-dad hooked up a TRS-80 on a monochrome
screen.  I was captivated by it!  I didn't realize I'd still to this day
enjoy computers and technology up to this day and beyond.  I upgraded to
a Commodore(tm) 64 with a 1541 floppy drive and 1571 color screen with an
adapter on the back to get a color screen.  Moved on from then to a C128
with split C64/128.  The C128 was monochrome with more capabilities; I
don't recall doing much with it however.  Then to a 286, 386 and on to a
Pentium(tm) with a 14.4K modem.  I found the internet on the Wichita
State University bulletin board system here where I reside.  It included
free internet dial-up and Netscape Navigator for a short moment in time.
I'm a big fan of Mariah Carey so I did a google search and found IRC, so
I spent years chatting, hooking up my VCR to my computer to record MPEGs
and what-not.  Then moved on to creating websites of celebrities with
pictures I found on a new world wide web.  From then around December of
2009 I got an unexpected e-mail asking to start a Tradewars 2002 server
for this person and her friends to play on.  I remember back in the day
playing TW2002.  It was so popular back then.  I remember getting custom
BBS screens with a couple of Co-SysOps that wanted to help me out.  I
didn't know much about telnet and all that so I started reaching out to
other BBSes, figuring out various things like setting up message bases,
files areas and on-line doors.  I was unsatisfied that there wasn't much
teleconferencing happening on any of the boards I've called up to this
day.  I found a Discord(tm) server with others with common interests as
mine so we got it off well.  Interested in created my own door, so I
started programming, learning C++, aside with a little HTML, PHP
knowledge.  After awhile I started running Linux on a console platform
without a GUI.  I learned commands and such using Lynx.  Stumbled on
my favorite distro, Ubuntu(tm), currently running Lubuntu unto late.
I found a lot of my favorite friends on a module for Mystic which is a
BBS software I felt a lot SysOp friendly, so I installed MRC using a
script.  Just last night played a multiplayer game provided by Steam(tm)
and had a lot of fun.  Well, that about wraps it up for me.  Just a
little trail down memory lane.  I hope you enjoyed it.  You can reach me
at cr1mson@phatstar.org or even visit my blog at www.cr1mson.org.  I hope
to make more friends and support the TextMode, BBS Scene and all that
tech stuff that people like me enjoy so much!