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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.

the nickname stems from an old college trait for disappearing into the background whenever it becomes convenient. Seemed appropriate for a forum where I tend to spend more time lurking than posting.

My first start on the internet? That was probably around '91, though I forget if my first exposure came from hanging out with prep school kids who were trawling Canadian BBS's for English anime translations or killing time on Prodigy, having flame wars over the proper definition of industrial music.