35/M/Virginia Beach, VA... though I've lived in the Chicagoland 'burbs, Portland, Ore., and Providence, RI. Currently an independant senior software engineer working with a number of clients, in Delphi and C# / .NET.
Been writing code and gaming since 1983. First multiplayer game I can remember was on an Apple IIc, an olympics-style game, loaded via radio shack tape player, where my friend and I typed different keys to "run" in different events (and I remember him yelling at me for typing too hard on his keyboard

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Had a great multiplayer experience a few years ago, similar to what is happening in this thread. Game play slowed down in Team Fortress and we all started to chat. When we asked where everyone was from, we had representation from ALL continents at the same time. Very cool
