Saturday, April 12, 2008

How did it all start?

My journey on the internet started 15 years ago with a free introductory page on Tripod when I was located in India. And then after I moved to US, I was able to host a server at my home and also register the domain and use it for personal use. My first page could still be found at http://thinkman.tripod.com/ , the original page is somewhat broken due to tripod javascript addons.


There may be some broken links. I have a copy of it here.










Ranga 13 years agoAbout me

Here I just wanted to provide information in this page about almost everything in and around this world irrespective of its nature. In this world in its Electronic Age, the person who has the most information with him, is considered One Up above the other. So I thought worthy to provide some Information in my page and float it over the web. Hope You will find some useful things or Useful Links in my Page and in My Gallery. You may even get links of worth from some of my Friends Links. Ok Now about Me Hi, I am Ranga. I am from India and I live here at Madras(Chennai) in the State of Tamil Nadu. You can get more information about Tamilnadu in TIDCO's site. I studied in DRBCCC Higher Secondary School, Perambur and at DG Vaishnav College Arumbakkam. I completed my Post Graduation in Computer Application from the University of Madras. I am now working as a UNIX Systems Administrator in providing UNIX support consultancy on various types of UNIX running on systems like HP/9000, RS/6000, Sun Sparc, DEC Aplha, SGI's and also Linux & SCO Unix running on Intel systems. My career now spans accross more than half a Decade starting with a Government Organisation, the Registration Department of Tamil Nadu where I was performing the duties of System Analyst cum Programmer in the cadre of a Junior Assistant for a period of 4 years in co-ordination with NIC (National Informatics Centre) Tamil Nadu State Unit where you can find a lot of details related to India. Then I worked in DSQ Software Limited, Madras for a period of 1 year. Now I am working as a UNIX support consultant in USA providing consultancy to various companies in different areas of UNIX operations My interests are Web related development. Some of my passtimes are hearing Music, Watching TV, Chatting with my Friends. My hobbies are Collecting Stamps, Coins of different countries, reading, Writing short poems in Tamil. I enjoy Tanjore Paintings which is a very meticulous art form which is around 300 years old. A small collection from various sites is available here.


Home Page of Thinkman My first stint here was for a communication medium which can be global and at the same time effective for me to convey my messages to those who know me and to those whom I wanted to know who I am. A bit confusing isn’t it. Ok now to the facts. I wanted to put some of my personal details for employment which I can tell anyone around the world to just peep into and get the information. But I thought this just cannot be the only information that can be put on a Global Communication medium. So I thought I must be useful to the Internet family (world) in some way and whatever you see below is the resultant of that.

About the Nickname "Thinkman" When I entered the Software arena afresh I had apprehensions of whether I would be able to survive in this field for long. But once I entered and found the peoples around and the whole Computer Society a friendly I relaxed myself. One of the boon I found in this Society is the effective communication medium established via Computers which I have not felt to its real extent till I entered. Once into Internet I also came across the Internet Relay Chat (IRC) for which I needed an effective nickname to project myself amongst the crowd. First I tried "Willy" and it was an utter failure. Then I thought a lot and then came across this name from one of my friends who told that why don’t you have one of your strong personality trait as "Thinkman" nickname "Thinkman" and then now I have the nick 'Thinkman'.










































































































Friends Description
Sridev Raghavan One of those brainy guys whom I have seen so far and one of my collegemate
Swaminathan One of my friends I have been following all through my school, college, work place and to US
Sivarajan One of my friend in Registration Department
Velumani One of my friend in Registration Department
A N Sridhar My well wisher and Guide at NIC (Tamil Nadu State Unit)
S Gopinath span>One of my friends at NIC Tamil Nadu State Unit who is a fan of Richard P Feynman one of the outstanding Physicist
Mohan Kumar One of my friend in DSQ Software Limited
Ravi Venugopal One of my friend in DSQ Software Limited
Sathyanarayana One of my friend in DSQ Software Limited
Sankar Prasad Padhi One of my friend in DSQ Software Limited
Sumit Gupta One of my friends in DSQ Software Limited who introduced me to IRC CHat.
Froom One of my friend on chat
Harnarinder Singh One of my friends on chat from Malaysia
Sukanya One of my friend who is now a Lecturer in Chemistry in Valliammal College for Women
Ravindran One of my neighbourhood friends who was also my school mate and now is in Marketing
Palaniswamy One of my neighbourhood friends who is good in Desktop Publishing Applications
Poobesh Kumar One of my neighbourhood friends who is good in cricket
Venkatesan One of my friend during my M.C.A course
Koteeswaran One of my friend of my school days
Balbir Singh Bora One of my friend who came to the SSB Selection in the Indian Navy from Vadodara(India)
Sivakumar Jayaraman One of my friend on chat of India who is now in US
Temina One of my friend on chat from Canada
Rekha One another friend from Canada who became a friend of mine through ICQ and she is a great lover of bikes and cars. If you want to see some of the exotic cars and bikes. I advise you to click on her name
La Vaughn Smith One of my friend on chat from St.Louis, MO, USA

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