Installment for today, Wednesday

BBS MESSAGES BEFORE THE INTERNET

As a teenager and into my early twenties,
I taught myself how to program an ATARI
computer, both in BASIC language and in
assembly language. I was writing game
programs. One day a friend told me that if I go
online that I could find games. There was no
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internet at that time, but people used modems
to connect their computers online. A modem is
a small device that calls a telephone number
and connects your computer to another
person’s computer which is running software
to allow you to read messages and download
files from their computer. The program that
you login on is called a Bulletin Board System
(BBS). I began to call BBS systems and read
and post messages on their message bases. I
found myself defending my faith in Jesus in a
hostile atmosphere toward Christianity. I
decided to run my own BBS and make my
message bases welcome discussion about
spirituality.

In those days of the early 1980’s there
were BBS networks that would send bundles of
message base discussions to each other.
These files were called ECHOMAIL. People
would read and post messages and then once
per day the BBS owner would bundle all the
new messages into a file and transmit it to an
Echomail hub system, which then sent them to
everyone in the network. I created my own
network called SEARCHNET and made several
message bases on it with different topics on
spirituality, politics, and conspiracy.
SearchNet was known for allowing people to
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express their opinions about a subject without
being attacked by other people. At that time
my nickname was ladynada.

TEACHING ON MESSAGE FORUMS

As soon as the internet came, I
transferred my echomail message bases into a
mailing list. A mailing list has many people
subscribe to it with their email addresses and
each person gets every new message posted.
It was at that time in the late 1980’s and early
1990’s that I began cross posting messages to
internet Usenet groups. Cross posting is
taking one message and posting it to several
different discussion groups. I became well
known and earned a title of “Net Kook”, which
was an honor for me. I was sharing other
people’s messages and I did not add my own
opinion to the messages.
Internet Usenet groups began to die down
so I began to post my own messages on
internet message forums. In 2006 I began to
post on one large forum under the nickname
Me114. Most of my posts were about my faith
in Jesus and Father God. I used the forum to
teach people things that I was learning about
my relationship with God. When Facebook and
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Twitter came out, I also posted my teachings
on their social media platforms. I went by the
nickname heartdaughter.

FALL IN LOVE WITH GOD

I love to teach understandings based on
the Holy Bible and Holy Spirit revelation. A few
years ago, I wrote a three-part series of
messages on “How to hear the voice of God”. I
posted it to several places. And now the idea
to make it into a book is what you are reading.
I have always wanted to be a writer since I was
a little girl. I could not let all these decades of
knowing God and hearing His voice, go to
waste without sharing what I have learned. I
want people to know that it is totally “normal”
to be able to hear God. He also takes care of
us like a loving Father. It was many years ago
when I saw how God was taking care of me and
my family, that I fell in love with God. Before
that time, I had faith to believe in Him and I
reverenced him. My hope in writing this book
is that readers will learn to hear His voice and
will also fall in love with Father God.

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