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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.

When my daughter was one and learning to speak, she often heard my wife call me "Ray". When she was about a year and a half and could yell my name she called me Ray too. This really got under my father's skin, so they tried to subvert her. I thought it was cute. So as she struggled to understand the difference between daddy and Ray, she started to call me daddray. It stuck.
I just started surfing the web because it was there. I had a computer and didn't want to be passed by. I was already in my early 30's when I got my first computer. It was a requirement. Not an option. Or so I tell my wife. Who doesn't understand. Even though she surfs fuckin e-Bay like a mad fool.