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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.

Pejorative. Got great tone (in the studio) but was super-sized. Not sure when the internet even started (will Google that someday) but was active on DARPA and the old Compuserve back in the mid 80s. Utilized Criticom teletype in the 60s. When my "first use of the internet" might have been is hidden in there someplace. BTW, I always felt that it's a place for freaks. Hi, fellow freaks. I can see you.