Kevin's Page
I think the first thing you might notice about my web pages is that they're
rather simple. Well, for a person that spent two years as a "webmaster",
you might think that I'd have all of the latest javascript, or macromedia
flash animation, PHP scripting, or the like on my pages. In most
cases, I'd love to. However, I don't have the time to learn most
of these things, let alone the creativity to put them to use. My
role as webmaster was in the "pioneer" days of the internet - 1995-1997.
"Hey!" you say, "wasn't that before Al Gore invented the Internet?"
In truth, I was an something of an internet pioneer. While I worked for Penn
State University's York Campus, I got plenty
of experience in using the Internet and with TCP/IP in general. For
2 years, I was the campus's LAN administrator. Actually, we had 3
LANs - 1 Token-Ring (bleah!), and 2 ethernet (thin-net). This was
from late 1986 through 1989! I learned on 3Com's Ethershare, and
then 3+Share (the fore-runner to 3+Open, which later was renamed Microsoft
Lan Manager when 3Com sold out of the NOS market). I also learned
Banyan ViNeS on that horrid Token-Ring. Banyan was way ahead of the
curve with their software, and it was a shame they eventually failed.
What they had in 1987 with global directories and server integration was
still better than where Microsoft is today!
Anyway, I don't yet have much yet to publish here. I will
not publish personal stuff, such as where I live, my phone number, email
address etc, because I get enough spam already - all types. However,
my interests are another matter.
And just what is it I'm interested in?
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Well, cars for one. And what guy can say he's not? Anyway,
I'll need to devote an entire page to
that!
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Continuing with the "guy" theme, I can't leave out my firearms collection.
For obvious 'security' reasons (my own), I won't publish the specifics
on this web site. My friends know what I have, and that's really
all that needs to know.
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Science Fiction. I watch movies, TV, read books, and collect various
things related to those movies and TV shows. Years ago, I started
collecting the new Star Trek Next Generation toys that were coming out.
Over the years, that collection grew to be rather massive.
Updated 10/31/2002 - because it was about time.