MikeyMike: Enojon

I shall now reveal myself [calm down Opal]--my inner self. I came to Delphi's trivia room accidentally like so many others. My first experience with trivia was on AOL (when it first arrived circa 1990-91). At the time I was living in Oklahoma City and looking for an alternative entertainment form to television and western bars. I found a trivia room. I later found some other chat rooms [not going into details about them] on AOL, but I became disillusioned with the high price for AOL [they wanted $500/month, and I saw it differently]. I moved over to Prodigy, but this service lacked chat rooms--but it did have forums and addictive games called "CEO" and "Mad Maze". When I moved into a new apartment around the first of 1992, I purchased an Amiga 500. The computer supported Telix and Pro*Comm-ish software that allowed dial-up of bulletin boards (FidoNet) and text services like Genie and Delphi. I wound up with a Delphi account that I rarely used until I moved to Indiana. One snowy night in Indiana I wandered into trivia chat and I've been bugging Bill, Jean (JCMGD), and Lora's Kitty ever since. Chandra got so fed up she went over to AOL Trivia... :-) Arwen tolerated me. Robnoxious grew severely annoyed, and Manny was driven into marital bliss. When I moved around from state to state (same employer fortunately), I kept up with the games--always finding a Telenet number to connect to Delphi, even in West Des Moines, Iowa. The advent of the Internet brought a new wave of fun--and the ease of connecting via telnet access. I was hooked. I experienced my first Bash when I moved to the First Coast--staying in the wee hours of the night to meet the wonderful Pennsylvania, Jersey and New York folks that made trivia so much fun. Ironically, my new location closer to trivia club folks was derailed as I pursued other interests in the MidAtlantic area--visiting museums, socializing in the major cities, and traveling up and down the coast. However, I always managed to log into trivia at least once or twice every three months to keep in touch. My first experience with the bonds that triviots have for each other came when I logged onto catch a game one night and discovered that one of the favorite triviots had met an untimely demise. We grieved; we memorialized--that is triviot culture (see Geezer Memorial, for example). Trivia--it's not "just for breakfast," anymore.