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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.

Oh yeah, is something I say all the time as probably an annoying place holder in conversation, especially if I am preoccupied with something else for a second. Oyéah is the first and only nickname I have ever had on the web, anywhere. The dialogue on the screen said I should make up a nickname, and to my self I said, "Oh yeah?" It was instantaneous.