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Journal Journal: MySpace

Journal by xeon4life on Saturday May 14, 2005 @06:11PM

(Laughs.)

Yes, I created a MySpace account. It's all the rage these days! If you really want to know more about me, just check it out.

(devin) (at) (devintorres.com)
http://devintorres.com/
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My real name is Devin Torres, but my online handle is sometimes "Xeon." Xeon evolved from a name I used when I played on MUDs (Multi-User Dungeons), not from Intel's "flagship" microprocessor. I got my first computer when I was 12. It was an old Pentium with Windows 95. I was ecstatic over it, and my dad signed me up with dial-up Internet access with NetZero. I quickly opened telnet on the machine and started playing a MUD a friend of mine had introduced me to. Instantly, I fell in love with computers, but realized quite horribly that NetZero only allowed 100 hours a month of use before they didn't allow you to connect. I was infuriated, but waited a month to get back on. I immediately tried to figure out if I could play the MUD without connecting to the Internet. I was given advice from a MUD administrator that I could download a program called "Cygwin" and use it to "compile" the MUD on Windows. I finally got it to work. Needless to say, that was only the beginning.

If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.