Originally Posted by Rochard

December 2001.

GFY is how I got the nick name "Rochard". I had been going by the name of "Zak3" before then. Tanker (who had worked at ICS when they created GFY) told us about the board, and Lightspeed told me to sign up before the end of the day. I wanted to move away from the "Zak3" name and was forced to come up with something... So I changed the "i" in Richard to an "o" and called it "Rochard" pronounced "rockhard".

Here I am two decades later.