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Strawberry Fields was a Bulletin Board Service (BBS) I put up in 1993 at a blazing 1200 bps. For you computer illiterate folks, in terms of your 57.6k bps modem, that means text would fly by on the screen as you logged in at 1.2k bps. My BBS was on my crap 8086 4.777777777 mHz supercomputer. You could go get a cup of coffee while waiting to read what your friend wrote to you yesterday.
  It was fun waiting three hours to download a megabyte onto the 40 megabyte hard drive. Running the BBS actually taught me to type. You see, my mother would see me downstairs in the basement. (i.e. saw the lights on) and would yell for me to go to sleep. I would turn off the basement lights and continue to play online, either calling Alcatraz, ENGLiSH ACiD, or chatting with people on my own board. Typing in the darkness meant not being able to see where the keys were so  I learned where keys were without sight.
  Because of my computer,  I met Mark Samp, Pat & Mike Murphy, Mark Geralds, Katrina Ham, Mike Cyrulnik, Melinda Joseph, Chuck Firment and a slew of others whom I still hold dear 6 and 7 years later. These days, I'm using an iMac to get my work done for me instead of the dreaded peecee.