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Name: Corwin Light-Williams
Joined: November 22, 2004

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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.

It's from the movie, "The Third Man", which I love. All of my computers are named after characters from the movie. I used the internet first for real in like 1993, although I posted to USENET and other such things long before that. I remember when email addresses had to be full all kinds of different waypoints. I worked on the original wiki in 1995-6. All I did was administer the system and tweak the original scripts, but, nonetheless, I sat in the office with Ward and we played with it.