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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.

Combining the classic game dig dug w/ the character dirk diggler gave a user name I was pretty sure nobody else had taken, as I was sick of trying to register shit that was no good. Information sharing seems to be the best thing in the world, and this was the best medium for it. You can find anything, not just an edited version of events.