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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.

My name was from my email address of my first real job at a Toronto newspaper, the standard 1st letter of first name and 6 letters of last name. Kind of like "furley", but harder to spell.

I've been lurking around here for quite a while, many times wanting to give my 2 cents on something or other, constantly checking for an accepting new user page, to no avail. Finally, its been opened again and damn I forgot what I wanted to say.

I started using the internets back in the mosaic days when it resembled a large pamphlet. And even before that on BBS's on my C64. And before that it was punchcards... those were the days.

I feel like I was ahead of the curve when it comes to P2P file sharing. I used to trade Grateful Dead tapes with people all over North America in the early 90's on a BBS. Kids these days with their fancy pants broadband, we had to trudge through the snow to the mailbox to get our downloads.