Anne Jan Brouwer is a developer at Kingsquare information services in Beverwijk the Netherlands.

Born in 1979 started with computers when Herman Brouwer, my dad bought a C64 in 1987.
After BASIC and some machine code (mostly music, nothing any good) I went to play with a P2000 at school (was a step back from C64) later early nintees we got a SIREX 286 PC..
After the basic BATCH menu's and some GWBASIC I went on to QuicBasic..
QuickBasic was a lot of fun.. Especialy the 4.5 version that had an EXE compiler/linker.
Did a lot of fractal graphics and some basic 3D stuff with it.. If I ever find that stuff I'll put them online..
Later on windows I played a bit with VisualBasic, didn't like it much, did do a silly VB project with Jan Hein Koster early 2000's.
In 1998 I first installed Linux (RH 5.1) on my own PII 300. I realy liked how you could make it do the stuff you want instead of you having to buy (or copy) the stuff you need..
Somewhere early 2000 I met up with Paul Honig, Lourens Willeboordse and Jurgen Deen at the (now dead) Worldcity internet cafe, we did a hell of a lot of work there..
We started TP2B on the Worldcity network.. The domain we lost in 2009 :(
Paul convinced me to swich from SuSE (the Linux distro I was using at that time) to Slackware. I'm still mostly using slackware.
After dropping out of school I started to work for Vernet Amsterdam in November 2002.
After learning C, C++, php and more, I'm now working on getting LPI certified..
This is my view well close ;)
After working as a programmer and system and networks administrator at Vernet in Amsterdam (google earth) I now work in Beverwijk as a PHP/MySQL/Linux developer for Kingsquare information services. [Read More!]