So why PepeCyB?
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Where does your nickname ‘PepeCyB’, which you use almost all the time on the net, actually come from?
Well, since I'm asked this question from time to time, you should have the exclusive story here. „“! 😉
At the end of the 90s, I had finished my promotion studies with the Berlin police and took over a shift in the north of Berlin as shift commander.
One of the long-established members of the shift and also a bit of a ‘computer freak’ was Toddy. We had a good relationship. Well, one day he stumbled across the ‘cyber cops’.
It was a loose association of police officers from all over the world who exchanged information via a mailing list. He joined and then lured me in. At the time, the members also met regularly in a closed chat room on IRC.
At some point, the ‘institution’ of Toddy organising a weekly online quiz for the German-speaking members came into being. Naturally, I took part again and again.
Well, Toddy and I had the advantage that we had a relatively fast and good Internet connection by the standards of the time and that the chat servers were also well accessible for us.
So it happened that another member - perhaps still with an old modem in Klein-Kleckersdorf - gave the right answer and it reached me before Toddy could see it. I always signalled this to him and of course never replied.
He always said: ‘Why don't you write it, then you'll get the points!’ But I was stubborn... I didn't want to take advantage of that and so I didn't write anything until the answer arrived on his screen. He always said: ‘Pfffffffff... You're holding your breath just like the little . I'm sure you cross your arms just like that.’
He couldn't see me, but that's what I was really doing. lol
Well, the little (stubborn) boy from Asterix with the Spanish was called ‘Pepe Costa y Bravo’... and so my nickname was found. I use it consistently everywhere.
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