He is both supportive and speculative in ways that have benefited him over time.

David Dowst was paying me in cards, but not in booster packs.

He was sending me alpha cards.

In 1998, nobody wanted alpha because you couldn't play them.

You're like, fine, David, I'll

take it.

I still have this fairly huge collection.

Not really huge, but maybe a couple thousand cards of alpha.

Okay, so let's start at the very beginning, which is how did the JoJo come to be? Well,

the very beginning is like basically the story of the beginning of the Internet.

It's like 1996.

I got a call up on Netcom, and they gave you 10 megabytes of space to make basically like a web page.

And I was reading articles on Usenet about... magic and i'd been i'd only been interested in magic for a few months then but i started collating the stuff that i was pulling down from usenet and putting it on my page which which a few other people were doing too that there was a land of desto guardian and a few other pages but anyways i i was i was doing that and I started getting interested in some decks like the NecroDeck and all of a sudden I had all these articles together and then something happened.

I was working for the army at the time and I went over to this place.

I was working on web pages for the military, for military intelligence and they were trying to figure out how to put together information and be able to network that information between different intelligence analysts and I had already started this thing with magic and I kind of I was working both of them at the same time so a lot of the web pages for the military stuff ended up looking like the dojo and vice versa and then I did that for six months and um I just decided that Usenet was kind of, it was really hard to parse through like 200 or 300 messages.

It was kind of an ongoing thing that people could add to.