Roger Ball!
Poor Dan never did like nicknames very much after that.
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Gen X are the proto-inhabitants of the Internet. Raised natively and feral. They remember the frontier and the darkness. They literally plugged the wires in to make the OG connections.
Pic: Tape drive circa 1981 for a Ti-99A 16k
Member laying awake at night tryna figure out how to get a CB radio to have another voice in the darkness. Parents house phone was on a Party Line… Long distance charges applied beyond about 15 miles.