Gaia Capitalist

I present my credentials as a granny elder of the Internet.

1982 - my first pc IBM vanilla box with jerry-rigged boards, twin floppy disks, 128k RAM.

1983 - first game played on Atari, had to key the code in myself from a computer gamer mag.

1984 - hooked into Stanford University mainframe working with non-profit organization that collected community data as one of arpa.net's first 19 pilot projects.  Only three mainframes participated.

1985 - started going online, checking out the bulletin boards.  In the olden days, we were called bb sysops. Do bloggers know DOS these days?

1985- had to place the headset of my rotary dial phone into the modem coupler to get connected with, what was then, a small community of like minded technonerds and computer freaks.  We weren't hip back then.

1997- finally taught myself to read and write html code, published my first web page online.

1999 - designed, produced and published first website.

db note - from 1985 to 1999 I raised twin daughters and freelanced doing graphics and print publications on my pc clone out of my home office.  At 55 years old, I claim also to be an original desk-top publisher.

I reside in Spokane, WA, and work in cyberspace, trying to make a living as a web publisher, graphic artist, writer, researcher and outspoken sysops.  Did I mention, I need a job?