My name is Rachel and I've been kicking around the 'net for what seems to be quite some time now. Before the Internet really got going, I was a member of a local "Bulletin Board System " (BBS) which were usually based off of one person's computer and locals would dial directly in and log on and talk to other local people. After a little while the "Informal BBS" expanded to having an extremely basic access to the Internet and WWW.

Around then Mosaic came out, my mom got Prodigy and I was soon bopping around the World Wide Web. At some point we had CompuServe as well as America Online. At the time Prodigy was the worst, AOL was second and CompuServe was the least obnoxious as far as the users were concerned. Obviously AOL has knocked the other two far out of the water since then.

Meanwhile, I wasn't even in High School at this point. By the time I did get to High School I learned how to create websites in notepad and even had an AOL site of my own. My login at the time had been PACRAM2 which to this day is still my primary AIM login.

I also got the oppertunity during High School for 3 months one summer to intern at The Press of Atlantic City (or alternately The Atlantic City Press) and helped with the design of a subsite featuring the Atlantic City Surf, a local baseball team. My main work was on the profile pages for each player.

I also put together a recreation of the "RoseWalk" a sidewalk in Atlantic City that features plaques with quotes from various Miss America contestants and rose colored lights. I personally had to hand type in each quote, thankfully I knew how to type properly!

Possibly more prestigesly I also wrote a collumn for the now defunct "Generation Next" section of the Press called RAM (Thus, "PacRAM" Press of Atlantic City, RAM, the two because apperantly some one else had it too!) RAM was a general computer collumn aimed at young adults at time a when computers were starting to pop up in schools across the country. The topics ranged from the basics of creating a webpage to computer game reviews.

Eventually I had to give up my collumn do to a new job at a local bakery. And thus was the beginning of my next career as a baker. After six sweet and sticky years at a bakery I loved (Wards Pastry, Ocean City NJ) I now work in a supermarket bakery. I'm also currently enrolled at the Art Institute Online, a devision of The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. I hope to finish with a Graphic Design Bachelor of Science. And no, I don't know why it's not a BA.