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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.

So, it was like, 1995, and one of the free weekly papers here in Toronto, Eye Weekly had a little piece on the back pages about this new-fangled intarweb thingy that included one URL.

I was at university, I decided to funk on over to the computer lab to see if we had this "Mosaic" program the article mentioned. We did. I typed in the URL, it was a page consisting a badly scanned copy of the instructions to load a Pez dispenser.

I was home.