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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'm a human font. I once thought I was a font of wisdom, or a font of knowledge, but then I discovered I was more of a glyph really and not even a whole font. I used to be an html tag, but they moved me to the css ghetto.