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<blockquote data-quote="HellHound" data-source="post: 1909323" data-attributes="member: 3397">Mine is short for my second BBS handle back in the days... in 1988, I settled on the handle &quot;The HellHound &gt;101&lt;&quot; on the BBSs in Ottawa, Ontario (and then on the old FIDOnet and eventually on the newsgroups... there are still old posts from that address in some truly ancient newsgroup archives). Before that, in 1986, I used the handle &quot;J'son BlackHammer&quot; - J'son being the dragonrider form of Jason. Yep, always been a fantasy geek.Well, anyways, The HellHound &gt;101&lt; was originally just a name and someone asked me what it meat, so began the story of an information-gathering software that was operating out of a satellite in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) that had slowly become an AI... and that was I.So The HellHound &gt;101&lt; stuck around for many a year, both as my screen name and as an AI in my CyberPunk game (and J'son BlackHammer is still around as an old netrunner in the same Punk games). A few FIDOnet meetings later, and I've got this new nickname... &quot;Hound&quot;. In fact, to this day, more friends and acquaintances call me Hound than Jason. Which is cool.Somewhere along the way, the &quot;The...&quot; and &quot;... &gt;101&lt;&quot; got dropped from the handle, and HellHound stuck it out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HellHound, post: 1909323, member: 3397"] Mine is short for my second BBS handle back in the days... in 1988, I settled on the handle "The HellHound >101<" on the BBSs in Ottawa, Ontario (and then on the old FIDOnet and eventually on the newsgroups... there are still old posts from that address in some truly ancient newsgroup archives). Before that, in 1986, I used the handle "J'son BlackHammer" - J'son being the dragonrider form of Jason. Yep, always been a fantasy geek. Well, anyways, The HellHound >101< was originally just a name and someone asked me what it meat, so began the story of an information-gathering software that was operating out of a satellite in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) that had slowly become an AI... and that was I. So The HellHound >101< stuck around for many a year, both as my screen name and as an AI in my CyberPunk game (and J'son BlackHammer is still around as an old netrunner in the same Punk games). A few FIDOnet meetings later, and I've got this new nickname... "Hound". In fact, to this day, more friends and acquaintances call me Hound than Jason. Which is cool. Somewhere along the way, the "The..." and "... >101<" got dropped from the handle, and HellHound stuck it out. [/QUOTE]

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