Noun
a person who pursues an activity in their spare time for pleasure
Source: WordNetI 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. Andy Hertzfeld
I don't paint. I am a hobbyist photographer, so I relate to the visual arts that way, but I'm not a painter. Annie Parisse
A camera hobbyist and basketball enthusiast, he began to doubt his nation’s military mission in Southeast Asia. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet