Hi everyone! I'm a geek from the US. Initially, my introduction to this world was Red Hat Linux 7.0 around the summer of 2000. I loved it. After distro-hopping through Slackware, Debian, and Gentoo, I settled on an early release of Arch Linux around 2003. I continued to stay in the Linux world for many years, until a bit after the systemd change-over. Around 2013, I made the jump to OpenBSD after having been fascinated by it for many years. I quickly dove in and felt at home in the OpenBSD world. Later, I would opt to use FreeBSD on my laptop for more bleeding-edge software and slightly better desktop performance, but OpenBSD still has a place in my heart. In November 2018, after hanging around this strange, but cozy, place called the "Tildeverse," where retro computing and shell accounts are all the rage, I realized there were no major BSD options. That's when I decided to open up [tilde.institute](https://tilde.institute) as the home of OpenBSD in our corner of the internet. It's even been featured on the *BSD Now* podcast! Episode 294 plugs the project. If social UNIX is your thing, come join us! We hang out on IRC, slap together various coding projects, and have a lot of fun doing it all. Keep running BSD, everyone! [Ben Morrison](https://gbmor.dev) _[17 Jul 2020](/raw/people/benmorrison.md)_