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<H1>Otaku-Boy!</H1>
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"For a short period of time, I produced an ASCII newsletter that I released to
Usenet and Email subscribers. It was called OtakuVidiot Online and covered
videogame websites in a blog-like style, way before they were such a thing. (I
don't claim to have invented anything, it just occurs to me that it was very
much like that.)
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"Anyway, I recently found ALL of the issues and they are sure to get erased if
I don't preserve them somehow. You're the first one that came up. Heck, you're
the ONLY one that came up.  Looking over these, there was a lot of work that went into them, but I got
Tuberculosis shortly after starting it and since I didn't make any money from
it, it became apparent that I needed to go back to a full-time job. I couldn't
continue it. Also, a lot of people wanted me to do it as a website. Today,
that would be easily done with all the blogging software out there, but, at
the time, all I had was NetObjects Fusion. It was PAINFUL to do this on the
web, and since my only model for successful e-zines at the time was
Lockergnome, which was EXTREMELY successful at the time, I thought I NEVER had
a shot. Ah, self-esteem.
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"Can you care for these?  Cheers, Mike Whalen The Computer Valet."
