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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.

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  • Not, alas, on jonson's dossier (but maybe on iconomy's secret list)
  • My Political Compass score puts me somewhat left fiscally, and with a very slightly libertarian bent: Economic Left(-2.75), Libertarian: (-0.97)
  • IQ Test: 22/25(cash/cleverness coefficient of 17)
  • ACT Score: 33
  • Blood Type: O negative, baby.
  • What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it?
    It is a nickname spaning the space of all nicknames. An all encompasing nickname, if you will. Originally concieved after frustration with small namespaces, and the unavailability of desired nicknames therein. Then I thought... what if I could fill up the nickname space? Have it all to myself! Make them all pay, yes!....
  • Tell everyone when you first started using the internet...
    I first started using the net in 1994, when there were way more gopher servers than web servers, when there were other weird kinds of hypertext protocols and browsers (like Cello), when the only real way to kill time at work was usenet, email, and (gasp) ... talking to co-workers.
  • what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?"
    Hmm. It isn't a place for freaks?