User:Jornemac

"Jornemac" is the nic for Norwegian artdirector and drummer Jørn Scholz. As an artdirectors assistant in a small ad-agency Jørn started using Macintosh computers made by Apple, aka "Macs", in the mid 80's, and soon became a Mac expert, knowing anything worth knowing about the hardware, the OS and the software inside. As a Mac nerd you'll bound to get a nickname, and Jørns friends and coworkers soon started calling him JørneMac. Jørn also was an early online participant, using BBSes and other services via his various (faster and faster) modems. Beeing online in the early 90's had some challenges, amongst them the limited character-set available. The special characters "æ,ø,å" for the Norwegian alphabet didn't work, and Jørn had to change his nic to "Jornemac" for online use. An the nic has stuck for ever after. (It is, btw, for the same reason, you'll often see Jørn sign his mails with "JRN". The "Ø" didn't work, so why bother type it in?).

Jørn can be contacted via his homepage, http://www.scholz.no