by Zoë Pollock
Internet editors reveal their first online name and why they chose it. Mike Riggs, from Reason, has a pretty great story behind " givinituptotheman":
It was a Christian reference, i.e., giving it all up to God. That got misinterpreted in college. My freshman year college friends thought I was a sex fiend, and that people were supposed to give it up to me. . . . I mean, I was a virgin my freshman year of college. I didn't want anybody to give me their anything.
Ah yes, zoballs28, I remember you well.
(Video: the creepy sounds of a modem dial-up slowed down by 700%)