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Joined: January 5, 2004

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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.

Most will probably get the reference, but for any others:

Furuike ya
kawazu tobikomu
mizu no oto
-- Basho

The old pond,
A frog jumps in:
Plop!
-- translated by Allan Watts

I've been using the internet since 1991, compuServe before that, and BBSes also. So I guess I've never really seen it as a place only for freaks.

plugh!