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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 handle is a mix of my first name and my last name. I took my lask name, "Hellinski" and added the first two letters of my first name "Ra". That is how they make the user names where I work.

I remember posting to bulletinboards in the mid-eighties, something called "Genie" and playing an online version of Zork (I think)...but didn't use the internet much until I got to college and used it often to look at interesting pictures and video clips.