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.
How exactly I came around to MeFi has been lost in the sands of time, but I think it started with Slashdot. I remember rounding up all of the "meta" kinds of sites (
Slashdot,
Kuro5hin,
Fark,
) to see what they were about.
As I see it, Slashdot is pretty narrowminded. It covers technology well, some related things such as science poorly, and the discussions only occasionally have content worth the effort it takes to find it. It makes me think, but it doesn't make me smile or laugh.
Fark covers web-phenomena. It makes me laugh, but doesn't make me think. The discussions are often funny, but decidedly anti-intellectual.
Metafilter is a little more high-brow than Fark, and covers different topics from Slashdot. Occasionally it makes me think and occasionally it makes me laugh. It's a nice balance. The discussions generally have a high Signal-to-Noise ratio.
