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<blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 487548" data-attributes="member: 3397">My original nick WAY back in the old BBS days was either &quot;The HellHound 101&quot; (in Canada) or &quot;J'son BlackHammer&quot; (while living in Atlanta).The HellHound 101 was a computer virus turned sentient that I created for a science fiction RPG as a DM many years ago that I still thought was a cool idea when I first started BBSing in 1985. Which is pretty funny since back in 1985, the list of known computer viruses was only a couple of pages long. We still logged in using 110 baud modems... I thought I was hardcore because I had a 300/1200 baud modem. Fastest dial-up in town.At 300 baud, with lousy phone lines, you could actually speed-read text as it scrolled by on non-stop mode on a message board.Okay... I'm REALLY dating myself here.So anyways, the HellHound 101 virus (the name was chosen for the mix of high-tech and fantasy texture) was a computer virus in my Traveller game that had been uploaded to a deep-space exploration probe and had become sentient (as had the probe, a la Star Trek episode 1). The virus finally downloaded itself from the probe the a science facility on a water world the party was about to land at...Anyways, the name stuck, and in Ottawa, where I owned my own BBS for many years, more people knew me as &quot;Hound&quot; or &quot;HellHound&quot; than as Jason... My leather jacket says &quot;HOUND&quot; in big letters on the sleeve, and I used to DJ as DJHound and even when doing body piercing, I used the nickname more than my given name.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HellHound, post: 487548, member: 3397"] My original nick WAY back in the old BBS days was either "The HellHound 101" (in Canada) or "J'son BlackHammer" (while living in Atlanta). The HellHound 101 was a computer virus turned sentient that I created for a science fiction RPG as a DM many years ago that I still thought was a cool idea when I first started BBSing in 1985. Which is pretty funny since back in 1985, the list of known computer viruses was only a couple of pages long. We still logged in using 110 baud modems... I thought I was hardcore because I had a 300/1200 baud modem. Fastest dial-up in town. At 300 baud, with lousy phone lines, you could actually speed-read text as it scrolled by on non-stop mode on a message board. Okay... I'm REALLY dating myself here. So anyways, the HellHound 101 virus (the name was chosen for the mix of high-tech and fantasy texture) was a computer virus in my Traveller game that had been uploaded to a deep-space exploration probe and had become sentient (as had the probe, a la Star Trek episode 1). The virus finally downloaded itself from the probe the a science facility on a water world the party was about to land at... Anyways, the name stuck, and in Ottawa, where I owned my own BBS for many years, more people knew me as "Hound" or "HellHound" than as Jason... My leather jacket says "HOUND" in big letters on the sleeve, and I used to DJ as DJHound and even when doing body piercing, I used the nickname more than my given name. [/QUOTE]

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