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\F1\3Introduce yourself shortly to the readers.
\2 - I am a 20-year old, pretty curious fellow, born and bred in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. I'm christened \1Tobias Jansson \2and my so called "handle" used to be something like "\1Electron\2".
- I graduated from the science course ("naturvetenskaplig linje", that is) at the senior high school last spring and I'm now supposed to study Computer Science and Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology.
- In my spare time, when not situated in front of the computer I e.g. devote my time to playing some floorball and some table-tennis and doing some \1long distance running\2; I use to head for "Goteborgs varvet" each May. In the summertime I go sailing once in a while. It should also be said that I do some drawing and painting on paper when I get some time over and feel inspired.
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Tell us how you began your scene career and describe generally how you continue it.
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- The first Amiga came into my house way back in August 1989. I suppose I was 13 years old by then. It's a bit tricky to tell exactly when one started to get interested in The Scene and scene matters as it's much a question of definition; yes, I watched some demos in early 1990 but had I become a scener because of that? Anyway, when I'd left the worst phase of "gaming" I joined a so called "user-group" called \1TFOAU\2 (The Federation Of Amiga Users), which distributed Public Domain programs and one or two demos on "member disks" that were sent out to the members. I got to know the person behind TFOAU pretty well (Hi, Henrik!), and I got "permission" to start a "demo section", the main purpose of which was to set up a demo library. However, TFOAU was discontinued due to lack of members, and I and the "leader" decided to form a "real" demo group instead, called \1Softrev\2.
- We released one small intro, which featured my first released piece of graphics, a blue, extremely simple Softrev logo, but was in mid 1991, if I remember right, asked to join \1Fantasy\2, a promising group with a handful of very talented members. Though, most productions looked to come to nothing in the end, and the group was dispersed in mid 1992 after only one intro, Fanta.
- In the beginning of the autumn the same year I got a call from \1Incido/Reflex\2 (also known as Reflexpeter, the man who shines in the dark...) who I'd met at the Easter party held by Phenomena the same spring. He asked if I would like to join Reflex. So I did and everything seemed just fine in the group: nice atmosphere, rather talented and productive members who'd been in The Scene for quite some time. I hung around in this group for over a year. We released the "legendary" XS (Excess) demo in the summer of 1993 - but unfortunately something went wrong. The fact that a lot of traders, of whom a handful appeared to be more or less neo-Nazis, was let into the group in addition to my having a personal quarrel with a certain member, made me and the other serious members consider starting a new group.
-\1Pointless\2 was formed, as an "independent" subgroup of Reflex. Though, the Oepir Risti project had, simultaneously, started to take shape and I and \1S.Duvan\2, who was not in Reflex, felt that it would be good to be in the same group when we released Oepir Risti. We thus formed Citron. shortly before The Party III (in 1993, that is). Though, Pointless appeared to be wanting me as member and Citron. was thus persuaded to join Pointless as a subgroup; I was then a member of Citron. / Pointless / Reflex! Unfortunately, Pontless' connection to Reflex proved too strong at The Party and Citron. left to become independent - quickly!
