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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.

alona is my given birth name, although sometimes I wish my parents had gone with the other name they were going to name me.

I got my first email account sometime in elementary school, but in all I was lucky enough to grow up with internet always around. my father and brother are computer nerds, so we had one of the first internet connections in our small Tel Aviv suburb.