Why did you choose your user name?

[WinkyDink]

30. Because WinkyDink was THE ORIGINAL INTER-ACTIVE character:

And I did exactly as this girl is doing!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/31/opinion/greene-winky-dink-bill-gates/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/31/opinion/greene-winky-dink-bill-gates/

"A strong case can be made -- and several authors, deep thinkers and historians over the years have made it -- that Winky Dink, more than any other single person (or single cartoon character, in Winky Dink's case), ushered in the era of interactivity.

In the early day of television, Americans sat transfixed as the first sets were delivered to homes. The brand-new experience was like having a constantly programmed movie screen in the family living room. The pleasure, the convenience-- all a person had to do was lean back and be entertained.

Or so it seemed.

But two men -- a pair of fledgling television producers whose names were Harry Prichett and Edwin Wyckoff -- had the foresight to realize that the screen did not necessarily have to be one-way."