History of the internet part 1.

Ah, now, where did it all begin?

Well, let's start with my very first computer.
It was an ACER 486SX (later upgraded to a DX).
It was a graduation present, and the year was 1993.


It had no internet capability, no CD-ROM at the time, so, all I could do was draw, write, and play solitaire.

The first thing I did...well, the first thing I did was draw a lot of shitty graphics that I didn't save.

BUT, the first thing I did that lasted, was write "Harry Hembock, and the Zone Dweebies".
I think that took until 1994-95 to finish.
Came in slow trickles.
It was the longest thing I'd written up 'til then.

Think I finally got a CD-ROM for the hunka-junk somewhere around then.
My favorite game was King's Quest 6.

Lessee...my first foray unto the internet was with a cheesey-ass serial port external 1220 modem I bought from a co-worker for 10 bucks, and a free trial subscription to AO-Hell (which ended up costing me 200 bucks in phone fees, pricks).

So, my first "boards", were those AOL forums they locked you into.

So, all that shit's lost to history.
No bother, it wasn't very good.

But, after that whole mess with AO-Hell was behind me, it lit a fire under me to get a proper 56k modem, and explore the real fucking internet.

This brings me up to 1996-1997, and Jason's World.
Here I met Billdude, Wubb, *Legion*, Josh Martin, Mike, Ryan, and KC...some numbers.
Our usual goings on there were well, like the J-World drinking game.
It was there that I wrote all of my posts from the good old days.
I posted there as Krazyfool.
It was a random name I chose from the mists of my memory.
Way back, when I used to hang out with "Nick", from "the serious drawer", story, he had an Apple IIC that I played games on, and one of them was a crummy old Dungeons & Dragons game, and I put a bunch of goofy-ass names in for my character, and for some reason, the one that made "Nick", roar with freakin' laughter was "Crazy Fool".
So, that burnt it into my memory, and that's what I picked at J-World, and it stuck.

Oh, '97 is also when I got the computer I'm still using now.
Lest you think I'm still on the old 456 shitbox.
That went to the junkyard ages ago.
Long since gotten high speed internet too, thankyouverymuch. :P

So, yadda, yadda, yadda, I hung out there for years, the gang moved to several iterations of the board, and we still called it J-World, even though Jason moved on and vanished from the face of the earth years prior; and somewhere along the line, I wrote "The Krazyfool Show", as my biggest skit up until then, and I almost immediately relabled it a story.

Then, a little later down the line, I started my own Geoshitties account, cuz that was the fashion at the time, and I created Krazyfool's Den Of Delusion.

Now, this goes on until about 2000, where I stumbled onto TrekBBS, the message board componant of TrekToday.
J-World was fun, but I needed to feed my geek fix.

It was there, that I would start posting as Diacanu, and where my life would start to change.

I gravitated towards the more free-speechy casual un-moderated section, called "The Neutral Zone", what we called TNZ for short.
It was here I met my friend Margaret, whose site is in my links section.
Course, we were just aquaintences back in the TNZ days.

I struggle to remember the details, and the timeline, but eventually, TNZ got to be too hot to handle for the admins, so they began a concerted effort to drive us off.
It worked, us TNZers took up stakes, and created our own board.
I'll just call this board WF.
Well, I hung out at WF for several years.
I may yet return someday.
I'm on extended sabattical for awhile.

Anyway, during the WF years, I churned out all the stories up to now, minus Krazyfool.

Also, and this is the life changing part, I started talking to, and befriended, Margaret.
It's through her I got hooked up with Jack Donner's stuff and why his site is in my links.
It's through working his techniques, and talking them out with Margaret and Jack that I'm all properly headshrunk now. :)
The process cured my asthma too, which apparently was stress induced.
So, yay. :D

Anyway, during the Diacanu/WF years, everyone at J-World but Billdude and Wubb drifted away.
I still keep in touch with them.

Then, about last year I guess, is when I discovered the book "The God Delusion", which kicked me off the Deist/Agnostic fence into Atheism, and led me to Richard Dawkins.net.

Yadda yadda, started posting there, then I started this blog, and you know the rest, and here we are.

So, that's all that.