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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.

My nickname is a shortcut reference to the works of Stephen Hawking, more specifically his anti-time concept. Back when I set up this account, it was my main tag in online games. I've gone to the standard real name naming scheme over the years, but still kept this name here.


Over the course of the last 15 or so years, people have seen it as a reference to: Satan worshipThe explorer Sir Francis DrakeA cry for helpRacism Overly fattening desserts.Its not a reference for those.