Welcome To Planet D21
The little fuzzy fellow you see below is named Ratchet. He likes to nap on the floor while I slave over a hot keyboard here at Planet D21, keeping a keen ear out for hackers that may be lurking in the dark corners of the internet. A few quick barks and he sends the riffraff scurrying. He's also pretty good at staring at me while I eat potato chips in bed watching all-new episodes of Lost and he has quite the talent for licking his butt. Beat that, Lassie!
But enough about the state-of-the-art security system...you are probably wondering about me. My name is Ryan Tovar and I grew up in tiny Waelder, Texas (see my website dedicated entirely to Waelder if you're really interested). Life there was good, but inevitably my time in the big W came to an end when I graduated from high school and decided to pursue a degree in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin (Hook 'Em). I moved to Austin in late 1998, graduated with my Bachelor's in 2003 and have been here ever since. I consider Austin my place of residence and will most likely stay here for many years to come, but my heart will always belong to dear old Waelder.
Planet D21 was originally launched in May of 2002 and was small enough to fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk with plenty of room to spare, but as you can imagine, the site has since grown in size and complexity. Floppy disks are a thing of the past (I don't even have a computer with a floppy drive anymore), but the site continues on. The latest version -- affectionately known as "Numba 5" -- is my attempt to move PD21 towards this new-fangled idea called Web 2.0.
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