# I Made It Here Finally **URL:** \ **Category:** Introductions\ **Created:** [October 7, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095 "2019-10-07T03:19:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![calgaryguru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/calgaryguru/32/699_2.png) [@calgaryguru](https://www.twit.community/u/calgaryguru)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 3:19am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/1 "2019-10-07T03:19:14Z")
I am just listening to episode 1632 now and learned about this community. I figured I better get in before someone else took my username. I have been too busy to hang out in IRC lately and so this is another outlet for me. ---
**Author:** ![JTW](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/jtw/32/2593_2.png) [@JTW](https://www.twit.community/u/JTW)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 5:49am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/2 "2019-10-07T05:49:26Z")
Welcome here! We have a really fun [Introductions thread](https://www.twit.community/t/introductions-whats-your-story/28/134) going where people tell a little bit about themselves and say hello. I hope you’ll consider writing a bit about yourself and sharing it there! ---
**Author:** ![calgaryguru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/calgaryguru/32/699_2.png) [@calgaryguru](https://www.twit.community/u/calgaryguru)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 7:01am UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/3 "2019-10-07T07:01:40Z")
I’ve been lurking around since the TWiT Cottage days and Leo’s first use of a Logitech web cam. I even watched him in Vancouver when he did Lab with Leo. He was live streaming that show’s tapings if you knew how to find it and I would have side visits with people like Sean Carruthers. I only saw his Call for Help in Toronto afterwards in reruns on Rogers cable. However, I first encountered Leo because I used his Mac Dialer program back in the late 1980s. I was big into the BBS scene back then. ---
**Author:** ![waxman80014](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/87869e/32.png) [@waxman80014](https://www.twit.community/u/waxman80014)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/4 "2019-10-07T14:18:58Z")
No one ever takes my username… ---
**Author:** ![shadowlord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@shadowlord](https://www.twit.community/u/shadowlord)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2019, 9:38pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/5 "2019-10-07T21:38:31Z")
Certainly glad to have you here. I think this will be a great place for all of us to hang out and share memories and of course ideas on tech. ---
**Author:** ![Mistershipwreck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/mistershipwreck/32/19117_2.png) [@Mistershipwreck](https://www.twit.community/u/Mistershipwreck)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/6 "2019-10-09T13:12:27Z")
Glad to see ya here 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![calgaryguru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/calgaryguru/32/699_2.png) [@calgaryguru](https://www.twit.community/u/calgaryguru)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/7 "2019-10-13T15:36:14Z")
If I click my name to see the quick profile popup, it only shows a couple of lines of the longer description that I wrote. Can curious folks ever even see the rest? The … isn’t a clickable target to reveal more… I thought it would be! Am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![ZivZulander](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/zivzulander/32/1168_2.png) [@ZivZulander](https://www.twit.community/u/ZivZulander)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 3:43pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/8 "2019-10-13T15:43:21Z")
You click the profile picture in the quick popup to read more, not the ellipses. ---
**Author:** ![calgaryguru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/calgaryguru/32/699_2.png) [@calgaryguru](https://www.twit.community/u/calgaryguru)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 3:57pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/9 "2019-10-13T15:57:15Z")
Plus another step after that… you then have to click on “Expand…” This could be better. Also, the three dots is a standard and is used even here on this platform! It’s right there next to the “Reply” at the bottom of each message in a list. This would be a good thing to change so that it goes straight to that expanded profile page for a given user. Clicking on the avatar is not intuitive. ---
**Author:** ![Mistershipwreck](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/mistershipwreck/32/19117_2.png) [@Mistershipwreck](https://www.twit.community/u/Mistershipwreck)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/10 "2019-10-13T16:01:14Z")
Thanks for posting that info. Very informative ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/leo/32/16203_2.png) [@Leo](https://www.twit.community/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 4:03pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/11 "2019-10-13T16:03:31Z")
Wow @calgaryguru - check out the [BBS thread](https://www.twit.community/t/do-you-have-any-bbs-memories-to-share/646). I talk a little about MacQueue. Add any memories you have. It’s all in the dim distant past for me! ---
**Author:** ![calgaryguru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/calgaryguru/32/699_2.png) [@calgaryguru](https://www.twit.community/u/calgaryguru)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/12 "2019-10-13T16:05:31Z")
BBSes? I even hosted one for a while on my own computer when it was winding down. Now that BBS lives as a Wordpress site: [https://warpsixbbs.wordpress.com](https://warpsixbbs.wordpress.com) I also used Leo’s software that he wrote back in the day… QDial! LINK: [https://macgui.com/usenet/?group=109&start=240&id=6](https://macgui.com/usenet/?group=109&start=240&id=6) ---
**Author:** ![calgaryguru](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/calgaryguru/32/699_2.png) [@calgaryguru](https://www.twit.community/u/calgaryguru)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 4:20pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/13 "2019-10-13T16:20:17Z")
CORRECTION: QDIAL v. 1.2, not Mac Dialer. See my other reply for a link to the binary. ---
**Author:** ![Leo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/www.twit.community/leo/32/16203_2.png) [@Leo](https://www.twit.community/u/Leo)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://www.twit.community/t/i-made-it-here-finally/1095/14 "2019-10-13T18:03:06Z")
Holy crumpets! Now if you could only find the QDial source. I guess I could disassemble it. It was written in ASM. Of course it totally wouldn’t work today. It used the vertical blank interval which only happens on CRT displays.