I've always been Argh. I've had handles since... gosh... um... since before ICQ existed- I started with Mosaic, Hotline and email, but I'm not quite old enough to have been involved with BBSs- I wasn't quite nerdy enough to stare at a non-graphical interface for very long, even to get pirated software.
I picked the handle when I joined my first game team (a long-dead massively-multiplayer RPG project) because the Internet is both the greatest thing since human beings first figured out fire... and it's also the most annoying thing since nerve gas.
I have a severe love/hate relationship with technology, and with the societies that form on the Internet, which are completely unnatural and often contradictory to our "RL" cultures. I've been on the Web since ... before people were calling it that, back when Yahoo didn't exist, let alone all of the crap we have now... so I've seen a lot've interesting things, and been a part of some of them.
The thing that keeps striking me, over and over again over the years, is how little has changed- my handle makes as much sense now as it did in 1997.
Technology keeps promising to be more reliable and more powerful- and it is. But new things constantly come out that break that technology, the more-and-more-powerful tools have interfaces that require longer and longer time periods to master, and most ordinary folks are left hanging.
It's getting to the point these days, where I wonder if soon I'll be unable to make mods any more, because my skills as an artist, programmer, designer, etc., will not be enough- it'll require a team of brilliant professionals to get anything done. I can't afford to spend the time or mental energy it takes to get to the professional level in any one of these areas, let alone all of them- I still have to work, eat, sleep, and have a social life
At any rate, enough philosophy. My point is that Argh is a sound one makes when one is terribly frustrated with obtuseness... and I think it's still appropriate as my nickname.
were not fools