I'd like to introduce one of my very best friends, both on the net and on LUMA BBS. Her handle is Unicorn. She's a really nice person, that I've known RT (Real Time) for a lotta years, and one of these days, I'm going to get her to get her own webpage up and going, but in the meantime, this will have to do. There's also a few other pics of Unicorns, if you don't mind waiting for them to load, right here. She really loves Unicorns, so there's a few of them! Her daughter, Lil' Uni, is learning comps too, so look out in a couple years.. if both of them get into this, it could turn into quite a place! I think Lil' Uni turned 12 this summer, if I'm wrong, kick me.. a virtual kick doesn't hurt a bit.. heehee..

She's the driving force behind a project that I'd thought of a long time ago, but never got around to organizing, that we call FOL.. Friends of Luma.. what we do is beg people and businesses to give us our old junk computers, and a number of us as volunteers fix them up so they work, and install donated modems (Mostly 9600's, not too good for the Web but perfectly good for general access to the BBS and for email and stuff like that), and then we give them to the county library system to loan out to anyone who needs them, whether for learning or to come play in this nifty place called the Internet.

A lot of people don't know it, but there's a big part of the Internet that doesn't need a fancy computer, or a graphics-based browser like Netscape or Internet Explorer, to just read what's out there. All the computers we send out are ready to access the text-based Internet using a Unix-based program called Lynx, for free, through a link with the Michigan Education Library that is available from a local call to the local community college, West Shore Community College. They can also use a program we include, called Bananacom, which is a terminal program, to come directly into LUMA through the net, so they don't need to worry if one of the six modems is available. LUMA has 18 internet connections available, and probably more soon, so there's almost never a busy signal once they learn how to access it. If you have a telnet program hooked up in your comp, you can also come there by putting these numbers in the net address line in your browser: 198.110.191.106.

If you want to email Uni any more Unicorn pics, or stories about Unicorns, send them here.

(Oh, she's promised me once I get her kick-started, she'll learn to do this stuff herself, then this page will probably be a lot more interesting!)

So if you liked this page, or if you didn't, don't tell me... just email her right below! I'm sure she'll tell me if the mail runs negative... <G>