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Name: John Brownlow
Joined: June 29, 2005

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MeFi: 29 posts RSS feed of posts by unSane, 696 comments
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Music: 6 songs RSS feed of music posts by unSane, 13 comments, 1 playlist
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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.

Hm, unSane because I like the band and it perfectly describes my fighting style in Unreal Tournament, which I used to play way too much. As for the net, I can still remember how it took me two days to install TCP/IP on a Mac Classic some time in the early nineties, and the amazing thrill of finally getting the modem to work and being able to telnet to the Library of Congress server. I was conscious at the time that something very fundamental had changed about the world.