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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.

My nickname is my name. It’s probably one of the most unpronounceable Dutch names to have when living abroad. (Apart from Gijsbrecht of course.) We are on a website here so the worst you can do is calling me Martin. You would not be the first, but you will be publicly ridiculed for not even being able to write down a name. You earn extra points if you write my name with a ij.

I have been on the internet for a while. I was an administrator at a dot-com forum first at the age of 14. Now at 21 22 23 24 I am still stuck here. Who am I kidding, I can’t get away from it.