MetaFilter

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.

kcds is my initials. I've had an Internet email address in one place or another with those initials since 1986, ever since I enrolled at the University of Kent at Canterbury in England to study computer science.

MetaFilter says:

"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?'"

I consider the fundamental premise of this question to be flawed since it presumes that I would not willingly self-identify as a freak, when in fact I do, quite openly and proudly as it happens.

The first web browser and web site I ever saw, though, was at Oracle, and it belonged to Oracle Puerto Rico, in about 1994 I suppose, where I was working at the time. It was cool.