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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.

Great story (but YMMV): when I was in junior high, I was on a forum hosted on the personal server of another student at my junior high. I was pretty obnoxious back then, dominating a lot of the discussions, even though I wasn't even a moderator or admin. Eventually, I was called a "subversive asshat." I liked the ring of that, but wanted something more G-rated, so I changed my username on the next rendition of that forum to "subversiveasset."