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following phrase: “get the articles on
the internet!”, “get the articles on the
internet!”. The funny things is that I
had no idea what the Internet was!
Perhaps I had heard the word once but
had really no clue what it really was.
Remember we are at the beginning of
96. Up to that time I had sent a couple
of emails just to experiment. I had not
visited a web page yet! Having this
“command” very clear in my mind I
went immediately to the help desk of
the University’s computer room and
asked them “how can I get something
on the internet”? Then a very polite
guy sat with me in a PC, showed me
the “newsgroups” (Usenet), something
like forums where you could post, and
he took me directly to the Christian
ones. Within a day I started posting
the material to these groups. Imme-
diately I started receiving subscriptions
via email from all over the world! The
same evening I decided that there will
be a magazine with the name of “the
Journal of Biblical Accuracy” (Biblical
Accuracy was the topic I was focusing
at that time). Within a couple of mon-
ths I had about 100 subscribers, but
no web page. Then a subscriber from
Mississippi (USA), offered to set up a
web page for me, which he kindly did.
The web address was half a meter long
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but it did the job. Eventually I got my
own domain name. Today what star-
ted that January exists in 18 languages,
has about 6.000.000 visitors a year
and about 80.000 subscribers. I didn’t
expect it to get so big but I expected
that it would be a fight to keep it going.
At the same time I had decided that I
would give this fight, as I considered
it as one my mandates on this earth.
B: I understand you became a
Christian almost thirty years ago, in
a small group out of Thessalonica.
Can you tell us a bit more about that
transition and the impact it had in
your life?
AK: Yes this was in 1991. I had a
Christian background and education
as a child but sometime in my teenage
years I turned to agnostic. Internally
though I was looking for the truth. I
was always a truth seeker. Sometime in
early 1991 I had a major crisis, which
brought me to my knees. I told God:
“If you exist, manifest yourself to
me”. Within the same week my best
friend at work told me about a Chris-
tian group and invited me to go. This
was not like the strict Greek orthodox
religious groups I knew and rather
detested. In contrast, people looked
normal and the God they were pro-
claiming was a Father who cared and