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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.

I hopped online in 1994. So did the Republic of Korea. I couldn't figure out what the hell Gopher was and my biggest question was constantly, "Where be the games?"

Somehow my dad stumbled on (pre "upon") a visual tour of the catacombs. Picture by picture, meandering those archaic halls at 9600 bits a second, we explored a place we still can't afford to visit.