The story of my nickname / handle

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18:06≀39 <@[Beta]> Tess, https://twitter.com/johndrinkwater/status/730440352574914560
18:16≀43 <@Tess> cute
19:04≀13 <@ps> whats with the nickname, john?
19:04≀24 <@ps> especially with the annoying punctuation
19:04≀24 <@[Beta]> disconnect
19:04≀31 <@ps> how come its not just "beta"
19:04≀46 <@ps> was it always [beta]?
19:04≀52 <@[Beta]> yup
19:05≀06 <@[Beta]> I wanted [Beta_Tester] on Efnet originally
19:05≀17 <@[Beta]> their nick limits meant I shorterned it to [Beta_Test]
19:05≀23 <@[Beta]> for like a decade
19:05≀41 <@[Beta]> then shrunk it again to [Beta] just before uni
19:05≀50 <@[Beta]> and then a few years after uni, went to
19:05≀54 -!- You're now known as johndrinkwater
19:06≀13 <@ps> what made you put [] around it
19:06≀18 <@ps> thats such ... an obnoxious thing =p
19:06≀21 <@johndrinkwater> l33t
19:06≀24 <@ps> ah
19:06≀26 <@johndrinkwater> No good reason :P
19:06≀34 <@ps> we were all young once
19:07≀06 <@johndrinkwater> I mean, for a very brief time, I put [βeta] in some software I wrote
19:07≀13 <@johndrinkwater> which was just a bit too GNU for me