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.
it sounds like a musical instrument, but is not. "rebar" and "fricative" were taken.
everything changed when i was around twelve, the day my dad, who works for the defense department, brought home a stack of printed-out posts from alt.tv.ren-n-stimpy.