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.
"Ick - you, too?" is the derivation of my username.
Ikkyu is the name of a Buddhist monk whose life is interesting to read about, but I do not claim to be his second incarnation.
Please be aware that I do not give medical advice over the Internet. If you read something I wrote, and construed it as applicable to your own situation, you are mistaken and should not have done so. Consult your physician.
I started using the Internet in November 1990, when I signed on to my Harvard e-mail account. I discovered Usenet that day and my life was never really the same. At the time, in addition to IP and NNTP, the major protocols were telnet, talk, ftp, gopher, and veronica; I used them all.
In 1993 a fellow Harvard student (and a bit of a perv) showed me the beta browser Mosaic; the first thing I ever saw on the Web was porn. I was shocked.
My first web journal entry, hand-coded in execrable but compliant HTML 1.0, was dated 12/30/1997; I wanted to get it up so that, decades to come, I could tell people "I had an online web journal in 1997!" I am now embarrassed to tell people that. I would like to say I was inspired by early bloggers like The Gus, heinovision, C J Silverio, and Diane Patterson; but they weren't "bloggers" at that time. The word hadn't been invented.
I'm recently gluten-free. You too? Want to chat about it? Drop me a Mefi Mail.
