hobbyist
Noun
Meaning
a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure
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I left General Magic in 1996 to become an Internet hobbyist - got a T-1 line to my house. At one point I had all four food banks of the Bay Area hosted from this house here.
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter.
A camera hobbyist and basketball enthusiast, he began to doubt his nation’s military mission in Southeast Asia.
Also in 1977, the first part of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons (AD&D) was published, which brought together the various published rules, options and corrections, then expanded them into a definitive, unified game for hobbyist gamers.
Business career CP/M Kildall and his wife Dorothy established a company, originally called " Intergalactic Digital Research " (later renamed as Digital Research, Inc ), to market CP/M through advertisements in hobbyist magazines.
As is it was prohibitively expensive for the hobbyist SysOp to have a dedicated connection to another system, FidoNet was developed as a store and forward network.