My introduction to the scene, was on 15 April 1993 and the time was 14:37, while sitting on the bus going home from school, there suddenly a strange and weird man came sitting next to me. He was very silent and looked a bit like he was in another world. His eyes were pale and his skin greyish, I can even say that he smelled a bit. After I while I said to the man, nice weather isn’t it. The man replied with “very nice indeed, but does this weather make you happy”.

I said “Happy ?”

He said “Yes, Happy!”

I said “Happy ?”

He said “Yes, Happy!”

I said “Happy ?”

He said “Yes, Happy!”

I said “Happy ?”

He said “Yes, Happy!”

Why should this weather not make me happy? I asked.
Okay, you’re happy now I know, he said, but are you satisfied, are you fulfilled.
Does this live you life give you satisfaction.

I said “Satisfaction?”

He said “Yes, satisfaction!”

I said “Satisfaction?”

He said “Yes, satisfaction!”

I said “erection?”

He said “Well that’s a strange twist in the story.”

It was time for me to get of the bus, so I said to the man next me, “well come on dad we have to get out of the bus”. And together with my father I got off the bus and we walked home. Along the way we walked by a forest and I saw something lying on the ground, unfortunately it was not a naked woman, but it was some kind of a magazine, concerning Amiga computers. As interested as I was I took the magazine and put it away in my bag. I said to my father “hey dad, do you know what an Amiga is?”

He said “an Amiga”

I said, “come on dad, the readers get bored of this, let’s act normal”.

He said “normal”

I said, yes, normal, what the hell is an Amiga.

My father said an Amiga is according to the latest news I heard, a new kind of species which is found deep inside the rainforest, where baldly no man has gone before. This species is very dangerous, once you get stung by it, you hallucinate about a world filled with young man sitting behind their computer creating demo’s, diskmag, music disks etc and spread them wide over the world towards other young man. They created their own world called the scene, but in reality they all sit in a special home for the mentally ill. Sceners they call themselves, yeah, very pitiful for all those young promising lads. But they seem happy!

They seem happy, I also wanted to seem happy, so I took the first flight to the deep insides of the rain forest and began my search for the species they call Amiga. I shouted, joehoe Amiga are you there, be a nice species and sting me please. But nothing happened, until I got caught in some kind of a web. Things went dark after I felt a painful sting in my leg, it seemed the Amiga got me finally. When I came to my conscious I found myself in a room with a computer, a disk drive, and lots of floppy disks. There were envelopes, stamps, glue and other useful stuff.

A loud voice suddenly said, you shall be a new scener, may the force be with you.

And until today I am still in that room, and this was my introduction to the scene.