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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.

The New Jersey Turnpike, for my family in the middle of the 1960's, was an arterial connection to relatives living in New York. A huge, military radome was fairly close to the road - as we passed by on each trip , my dad, noticing my rapt attention and remembering my fondness for a cheesy old science fiction movie - Kronos - would say, communications-radio-style, "Kronos to Earth...Kronos to Earth."....