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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.

This is just the nickname I use or everything, including e-mail, because I'm one of those freaks who goes by their middle name. I got started on the internet pretty late, in 1996, because the graduate school I went to had free internet, and I was bored some of the time. (My uindergraduate school also offered free internet, but the internet was slower and less reliable. PLus, I was much more busy!) The internet's a great medium for entertainment and information!