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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.

Well firstly, my nickname, it's my name. It really is that simple. Sometimes, I'm willtry™.

I've always been fascinated with computers, since my first Atari at the age of 9. I first got interested in the web, when a Physics teacher gave me some samples of HTML pages that he'd uploaded to my school's website in Autumn 1995. They were simple, bare-bones, text-only pages and I said "Can I have a go?" A month or so later I uploaded some pages to the school site, and have maintained it ever since.