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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.

I always admired the Cinncinati Kid . . . and then later the Kankakee Kid. Ahimsakid is self explanatory to those of you up on your Hindi.

I started using the internet before the web. I used to log on to a government computer from home and download files from the University of Oslo. I always worried that someone would find out and I'd have a humingous long-distance bill to pay.