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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.

Oy. It was some time in college, and the air was thick with nicknames. It was also thick with bad rap music, and someone in my dorm was a fan of Criss Cross. Remember them? The kids with the backwards clothes and the eyebrows? Anyway, one of their lines included something about mack daddies and daddy macks, and someone looked at my last name and started calling me the Rak Daddy.

The rest is geek history.