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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 nickname is, lamely, my name. It's a good name... got a nice ring to it. Like a tuning fork, actually, how you hit it just right and it hums and you stick it in your ear and you say, "Wow, it's actually tuning my ear!"

Back in the day, I was all into the BBS thing... belonged to one called PC MegaMall. Man, those people were fun. I wasted an entire summer with them and my 2400 Zoom modem.

Then I looked outside and realized there were some better things to do with my time. Realized, but still didn' t listen. And to this day, I still run around with my ankles nailed together, yelling...

"Hespaestus! Whye hast thou curssed me soe? Mine sloow enternit conecttione ande nayled feits encumber mye normalle graeceful mouevementes aboote thiene wherlde!"