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"I feel very blessed to have grown up in the exact period of time that I did, from Star Wars to video arcades to the first home PC, MTV and Max Headroom. I can still easily thrill at the memories of wonder I felt as a kid, with all of the amazing and unimaginable new experiences coming at me faster than I had time to digest. Even now I'm still astounded at how quickly our everyday lives are influenced and even permanently changed by the communication technologies we continue to invent."

Phil Hugger

Technical Support Specialist

Phil joined Indra's Net in May 2010, having spent his previous years in all manner of nerdy pursuits. He cut his teeth in high tech in 1991 with a startup company manufacturing the world's first 2.5 inch hard drives for laptop computers, which held a whopping 40 megabytes! Phil then moved on to another startup, manufacturing the first completely photonic multimode and single-mode fiber optic switches for the telephony industry. He took much too long before, during, and after these jobs at the University of Colorado working on his undergraduate degree in Computer Science, and there spent more than a decade with UnixOps, a team of highly skilled unix system administrators dedicated to helping the Boulder campus stay current with evolving network technologies. His biggest regret is that he did not register a hundred simple domain names in 1994 and become stinking filthy rich from their sale during the dot.com boom.

Hometown: Longmont, Colorado
First Job: paperboy
Pet Peeve: selfishness
Sound: my own online streaming jukebox, 57,000 tracks and growing
Word: Love
In Boulder I: started a BBS with a 9600 baud modem and 1 gigabyte of (horribly expensive) disk space
Scent: bacon & brownies
Drink: eggnog
Technology: mp3
Guilty Pleasure: anything zombie/armageddon/dystopia related
Inspiration: empathy
Book: Dune
Movie: Blade Runner