[s0fa37]

I'm from Scunthorpe! Never thought i'd see the day it made it to Hacker News...

To add something relevant to this post - I'm too young to remember this "problem" regarding the AOL filter, and my parent's first ISP was NTL which is now Virgin Media. Of course the use of the town name with emphasis on the aforementioned profanity was common amongst the youth.

[Symbiote]

A boy in my class at school was from Scunthorpe. There were a couple of times the IT teacher came to investigate what he was doing, which would usually include the "hometown" on a forum profile.

Around 1999-2001 I think.

[roebk]

Hello, fellow person from Scunthorpe! Where about's are you now? I assume you had to move out of the town to keep in the tech sector.

[s0fa37]

I moved to Sheffield for University and then stayed for a couple years after for work. Have actually ended up in Leicester recently to live with my girlfriend. My job is quite forgiving in terms of location as I'm on the road quite often, or can work from home!

[danellis]

I'm not the person you were replying to, but I went to university in Manchester, worked there, then Oxford, Cambridge and then to the US. Currently in Seattle.

(I did do a stint in the IT department at North Lindsey College, which was... different.)

[danellis]

I hope you managed to get out...