I started on communicating on BBS's way back in early 90's. I started by renting a 300 baud modem from our local amiga club. I bought a 300 baud modem to download "stuff" from amiga bbs boards, then moved up to a 1200 baud, finally bought a 2400 baud modem and thought I was in high speed heaven. Anonymity was really valued then so as we started to talk on some of the first boards we made up names. I was really into math at the time. Taking Calculus, set theory, logic and other fun college classes so I was the mathman.