Paul Karl Arthur Kell
Paul Karl Arthur Kell (born March 1, 1976) is a Cloud Security Engineer and author. A veteran of the pre-internet age of the 1980's and pioneer of the internet revolution of the 1990's and 2000's, he became interested in early computer technology from his father, who worked for IBM. The first computer Kell was known to have programmed on was a Texas Instruments' TI-99/4A, in an early form of BASIC and using cassette tape as a storage medium. Kell was also involved in making hardware modifications to the IBM PCjr platform to provide additional memory and streamline power requirements.
In 1991, Kell began programming using Microsoft QBasic. While he had been involved in the dial-up Bulletin Board Systems (BBSes) culture for years, it was around this time he first began as a SysOp of his own systems. Through the 90's he experimented with several BBS software versions including: Excalibur BBS, Mystic BBS, Opus-CBCS, Renegade, Synchronet, Wildcat, and WWIV. He was particularly fascinated with BBSes which provided the capability of synchronizing message forums with other remove systems, forming a "ring network" which brought together people from all over the world on the same message threads.
Over time, Kell's interest in technology waxed and waned, often in direct proportion to other events in his life. However, a critical decision occurred in 1998, when he made the choice to leave a full-time position working at a local factory to go back to school at Lexington Community College (LCC), which at the time was part of the University of Kentucky.
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