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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.

ewagoner was my first account name on the USENET when I started college at New Mexico Tech in 1989. Even though it's a boring initial-plus-last-name thing, I've kept it everywhere I've gone.

I've been on the 'net since then. That was pre-web, of course, when all the action was in the newsgroups. I was a regular on several of them (namely alt.shenanigans). I never acheived the name recognition of Kibo or Joel Furr, but the two of them knew me.

The first thing that made me go goo-goo over the internet was email Diplomacy games. I loved them so much that I set up my own diplomacy server (the "New Mexico Judge"). I haven't played a nice game of Diplomacy in far too long.