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Page 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 How I started on Gamestotal.com Now that is when I was introduced to BBS or bulletin board systems. It was before the Internet really took off and BBS was some-what like the Internet. We can chat, download files, play multiplayer games (doom, doom2, MUD games) and others. It was pretty interesting to find lots of people who can interact and forming an online community. Yes and that was back in 1995. I was hooked to the interactive environment that I eventually setup a couple of BBSes myself. I bet you guys won't believe this but I tried to setup my first BBS only after 2 days of playing with some other people's BBS. I said to myself how hard can it be. Man ! How wrong was I. I did not have any experience with networking what-so-ever along with something totally new like multi-user environment systems. Eventually after 48 hours (yes straight without sleep & food) I manage to set one up. People always say that the first time is always the hardest in doing something. After that I setup a number of BBSes and one of it is called EOL (Entertainment Online BBS). During the peak of EOL we had around 250 active subscribing members with 7 dial-up line running on a dual clustered server. Our biggest competitor was Backroom BBS founded by Kamal Yunus which has 8 dial-up lines. Everything was custom built because there was virtually no budget as I was still a student. The entire operations rely on donation by the active members. Still would like to say many thanks to those who have contributed back then. Since then I started working at 1997 in various networking and management line and soon migrated back to programming in the beginning of 1999. Learning programming at that point of time was not my free choice.  Next 
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