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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 was desperate, and needed a nickname to join. i'm not a deejay, and my name isn't jay or dee.

i first started using the internets back when i was a wee grad student . . . hey, it was the 90s. everyone was doing it . . .