Wow this actually brings back memories for me. Let me tell you guys a story then.
It was 1998 and I was 16, and the internet was new, fresh, and exciting. Yahoo was the hot new search engine while Altavista and Netscape were still the IN thing. Naturally, my school wanted to be hip and progressive, so they added Computer Programming and World Wide Web knowledge as part of our Tech and Home Economics classes. I was part of a special class that was given more time to use the computer lab, was part of my elective as communications technology. Everything was orderly, our innocent minds didn't know the possibilities of the internet. Then, MIRC happened. The "#" first appeared, and the multitude of chat rooms that opened our eyes to the wonders of untraceable dark, dark, internet stuffs. Needless to say, we were changed. I for one, changed for the worse.
To maintain the position as a "special" student we had monthly selection exam. Anyone can take it and only the top 100 will get that privilege.
On one such exam... I failed... miserably... simply because my brain was filled with the multitude of amazingly dirty, dirty things that the internet had provided.
How miserable? I got a 0 on the math exam... ZERO out of 88 questions... didn't even get the multiple questions right.
Hence, to remind of never again making the same mistake and continue to balance the stupid from the necessary. I was able to eventually get back to the special students program after grinding for another month. Then I made a Yahoo email address that stuck with me for over 20 years now.
So my name was initially read as.
NCD 0/88
Xero - was just my childish way of spelling things to make it look "kewl".
PS: My profile will say I was born in 1990, that was just an error. Should have been '82.