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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.

Took the nick from a character on of my favorite series of books by C.J. Cherryh. Hilfy...mmm...Hilfy.. ;) For those who've not figured it out from my posts I'm a old, or at least feel old, lesbian. I live on a solar powered farm in the country with my SO, 4 dogs, 2 cats, and 6 horses.
Oh, I'm also an eco nut! Well, not -quite- a nut, but most of the way there.

Started usin the net back in 91 after a friend pestered me to 'check out this internet thing!' Just unix shell accounts back in them thar days. No WWW then...just telnet, ftp, and gopher :)