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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.

I am a retired humanities teacher from a small liberal arts college, with some expertise in the languages and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, philosophy, history, film studies, and technology, especially electronics. And a lifelong rural Midwestern person (with a few spells away). I have been "online" since Compuserve via a TRS-80 Model 1 (if you don't count a remote timesharing GE system in the early '70s). Apart from the TRS-80, my first serious programming involving a large-for-the-time data set was on a PDP-11 (commodities futures technical trading simulation). The world took a misstep imo when the VAX/VMS went away.