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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.

AgeFilter: Original moderator of the 'Terrapin Flyer' BBS on the RIME network 1989-1991, creator of some of the old alt.binaries.* groups, Modded various modern adult forums until 2008. Was a hippie-played guitar with legendary rock stars in the 60's and early 70's in coffeehouses.

Usually found fixing computers, wandering around a beach somewhere in the Caribbean, or cruising the Shenandoah Valley on the Harley.