In April of 1997, I started a web site called the Tao and Zen of Questy, which became Questy.net. I figured the Tao of Questy could be the philosophical side of me. The original 10 or so pages were a collection of poems and songs I had written, with some photos of my kids used to illustrate them.
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While my concept of Questy dates back to 1977, I started using the online alter ego of Questy in the early 1990's. As I began developing web sites, and an online identity, the colors green and purple, along with the Questy character, have created my own brand identity. When I took the "World's of Questy" websites offline, I knew it was just for break, and in one way or another, they would be back.
I began reading philosophical and science fiction classics in junior high school. The birth of "Questy" along with my quest for the origins of society grew out of a college writing assignment back in 1977, based on Golding's, Lord of the Flies. The point of my paper was that Lord of the Flies was a very poor model of society, and that his whole premise was wrong. This grew into my delving into studying the classics that tried to define society. My idea was there was no one "perfect" society, but in a perfect world a person could freely travel between different societies.
