Hello, I am Fyrstikken - nice to meet you too!

My name is fyrstikken, I am a 120 Kilo full-size 100% Viking from the beautiful nordic Vikingdom of Norway where my mother and father fell in love with each other on a boat back in the 1980s and created me.

I was born in Oslo, the capital of Norway - many people don´t even know what Oslo means, but according to researchers it means "The forrest where the Gods of Old meet", so to avoid any trouble with those - we moved south when I was about four years old.

Dad gave me a computer for my birthday when I was six, it was an IBM XT, or the 8086 as everyone called it and it came with Microsoft DOS, monochrome display, a big tickety tackety mechanical keyboard, a 20 megabyte hard-disk and a floppydrive. It had everything a six year old could ever wanted, unless he wanted an Amiga 500 or a Commodore 64 which back then where the coolest things ever with tons of colorful games, sounds, joysticks and excitement - well, my IBM XT did not have any of those, instead what my computer came pre-installed with from the previous owner was Lotus 1,2,3 spreadsheet program, Wordperfect and an awesome little program that was called Printmaster 2000, which let me print out calendars and banners, which pretty much blows unless you were like me, thinking that those calendars could be stitched together and sold door-to-door for money, which is exactly what I did and boy did it pay for my next big investment quickly. I sold 740 home-made calendars in three months for a whooping $5 a piece, netting me a wonderful investment cushion at the age of seven which lead me to sell my 8086 machine and invest in an Intel 286 laptop with black and white screen and a VGA output to an external color-screen... My computer-life was awesome!

My best friend growing up was Håvard, we shared the same interests for computation, programming and exploring the many bulletin board systems (BBS) that existed around the world, using his dads superslow fax-modem for the task, we got into all kinds of cool networks until the phone-bill came at the end of the month and our parents cut us off from the world of computer to computer communication over long distances. In fact, I would not see another BBS again until a few years later when the family got a so called "multimedia pc" - a 486 SX 33Mhz with Soundblaster, CD-Rom and a built in 14.400 modem from US Robotics which made me a BBS-addict again, specially playing a so-called "DOOR-game" known as L.O.R.D/LORD or - Legend of the Red Dragon which is a pure text-based BBS-game.

In 1996 I got access to the Internet for the first time, and let me tell you - Internet back then was not like the Internet you know and love today - back then there was mostly all the information from the various Bulletin Boards in textfile format, newsgroups, email and IRC which I spent too many years on chatting with random randies from all over the world.

If there was two things the Internet had too much of back then, it was Warez and Porn - I am not kidding - that was the real reason Internet became super-popular, Warez and Porn - and... well, there is more of both on the Internet today then it was back then - but see, back then Warez and Porn where ALL THAT WAS THERE! - There was no newspapers online, nobody blogged, the only social media was IRC, and people built homepages, simple html based homepages hosted on a lame subdomain of the ISP, because purchasing domains back then was a bit more difficult to do from Norway then it is today, so lets just say I missed out on the domain-bubble due to me being too young to own a VISA-card back then, and well - my dad refused to borrow me his card to pay for BigBrother.com from Internic, a domain that I believed would be worth a bit more then the $70 I had to pay back then. Congratulation to whoever snapped that domain later.

But that was then - now is now, and as the Internet grew up, so did I, and quickly learned that IRC actually was a great place to meet girls that would come to south of Norway for vacation, so without going into any details - The Internet was Awesome :D