To the delight of computer wizards worldwide, Morgan Webb was born October 5, 1978 just outside Toronto, but her family soon moved to Los Angeles. At only 5 years of age, the cute, outgoing Morgan starred in commercials for McDonald's and other companies. Some may still remember her reciting the Big Mac's ingredients to a patty cake game.
Her parents limited her TV time in an attempt to get her to spend more time outdoors. Instead, young Morgan would spend hours playing video games (first Atari, then moving on to the original Nintendo). Hence her love for gaming stayed strong. She excelled in Legend of Zelda and other role-playing games, and would often practice secretly in hopes of beating her older brother at it.
In junior high, Morgan began what would become a lifetime obsession: fiddling with her hair color. She would experiment dying it with different Kool-Aid colors, which would inexplicably always result in a reddish hue. She is rumored to have shaved it all off at one point.
Morgan went to the University of California at Berkeley, where she got a degree in rhetoric with a minor in Italian. She describes rhetoric as the study of the arguments of philosophy, and as a way of studying philosophy with a more real-world face.
She graduated during the dot-com craze and went to work for Radio Riot Live, an Internet start-up that failed soon after its inception. With her friend Cat Schwartz from the busted company, she went to TechTV in 2001. She joined the program Screen Savers, in which she was a co-producer. Her quirky attitude and photogenic looks didn't go unnoticed, and they soon put her before the camera where she dished out Windows tips, of which she was a raging expert, three times a week. She also hosted the show a few times.
In 2003, she moved up to co-host X-Play, TechTV's popular video game show. Her chameleon-like hair and onscreen charm gained her a fiercely loyal following. One fan was so determined to get her attention that he hacked into Madonna's official website and wrote, tucked within other text, a marriage proposal to Morgan.
Why Madonna remains unclear, but it made Morgan an overnight sensation. She jumped to the top of Yahoo!'s Buzz Index movers list. That means that searches for her name in the search engine soared faster than any other celebrity, at 2,000%, surpassing Gwen Stefani and Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks.
Morgan Webb can still be seen on X-Play. She lives in a San Francisco house with some friends, where she relaxes by using Linux instead of Windows. She still hasn't officially accepted the marriage proposal from her fan.
