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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

er...my nickname is actually twinkiemckay. An aunt of mine said I looked cute and was sweet, like a twinkie, when I was about 2 weeks old. That stuck for like, forever. The other part of my nickname originated from this show back in the 70's, called Bj And The Bear, and being my name is Bobbi Jo, I was always BJ for short. But when this show came out, I was 'hey, BJ McKay!' So it's kind of a stupid combo.

I dove head-first into online technology back in early '98 when I first got a computer, hooked up to a modem and was surfing away. Back when MP3's were just things people whispered about and traded under the table. Back when theglobe.com was the bomb and I was sitting high in K-Swiss Chatroom heaven wondering what the hell an LOL or a BRB meant. Back when HTML still baffled me.

All I wanted was to learn it and get my own little corner of the world, up and running so that I could share it with others. It never ceased to chap my hide when I saw these
gorgeous, amazing, eye-popping webpages created by 16 year olds, complete with very bad grammar, typos, and a whole lot of other stuff, equaling a page full of nothing special. What I didn't know was, these dorks had used AOL press or Fortune City page creators and I didn't know this until I learned how to read their source codes. I read them and copied them and tried dillegently to learn the code. That was until I ran into sites like HTML Goodies and ALA. Initially, none of the stuff Jeffrey Zeldman and Joe Burns spewed made any sense to me. But after some time and patience, I realize These guys taught me almost all I know, and the rest I learned myself, from looking at code and stuff. I was determined to have an amazing website like those punk kids, but I know how to spell and whatnot. I knew content was of the utmost importance to me (it still is) and I had alot of it in me. I was bound and determined to learn these web programming languages and although I'm still learning, I've come a long way. With this said, don't get me wrong...I'm still no damned designer, more of a blogger. I've kinda settled for it. For now. Anyway, enough about me. Go back to what you were doin', eh?