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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 dad always called my Janko, which is Slovak for "Little John". My friends in high school crossed that with Rambo and came up with Yombo. A bit o' type tweaking and it became y0mbo.

The web interested me in college in 1994 as an awesome resource to fill with my evil propaganda. I've since had an alignment change, but I still think the net is useful.