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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'm a displaced Londoner living in the wilds of Devon and I work in IT.

My username is the abbreviated form of a long-abandoned Livejournal.

I'd heard murmurings about something called 'the internet' through the mid 90s but I've only been online since April 1998 when I spent much of the month (and ran up a £60 phone bill) exploring this bizarre world with my shiny new 200MHz Pentium I PC.