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by gwbas1c 1642 days ago
When I logged into my first dial-up BBS, I had no idea what to use as my handle. My manual for GWBasic was sitting in front of me.

25 years later I'm GWBas1c on Hacker news.

3 comments

That is about the most "HN" comment I have ever read (or at least "nerd", in the positive sense).
Damn, I should have been C64SysRef.
I should have been loadquotestarquotecomma8comma1.
The password i used for CompuServe was my modem model number. Same reason.