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What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.

A Taoist priest in Taichung was telling the fortunes of the members of our TV crew after we finished up a piece on him. When he came to me, he said "Poagao!" which is Taiwanese for "Happy Monkey" or the character Sun Wu-kong (monkey) in the Chinese classic "Journey to the West". There was no way the priest could have known that I was born in 1968, the year of the monkey. My co-workers were amused and took to calling my Poagao.
I starting using a BBS in 1987 with my IBM XT clone. Real web use ensued in 1994 or so when I saw a friend's set up in Hsinchu, complete with email, telnet, ftp and www. It was amazing. I had to have one.