True stories of true geek names

Geek.org has created an anthology of login-stories; tales of how various geeks chose their online handles.

But I'm seriously off track. Why man-bridge? Why such an absurd login? On this particular sunny day at the lovely Camp and Son's in Willits, we were floating NUDE in the pond. enola and thrusty were sharing a floating raft thingy, holding on to each end, facing each other. At one point, thrusty reached his legs out and put them around enola's waist and said, "Look! I'm forming a Land Bridge."

enola misheard, and was convinced he said Man Bridge. And so a login was born. Nice!! It was an inside joke for the rest of the weekend. And an absurd one (I like absurd ones). Several weeks later, Tammy finally badgered me into trying icb. I discovered that my cloudfactory shell account had an icb client. So, I fired the thing up and kicked the tires. Surprise! Nearly identical to IRC, which I had wasted many, many hours on in the early 90s.

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