I suspect my nickname goes back further than most. I was introduced to the vector-graphic "Plato" computer system based in Urbana, Illinois in 1975. Plato was spread out among various institutions of higher learning and comprised one of the very early but recognizable arms of what would eventually become the internet as we know it (and Al Gore was nowhere around). Anyway, I was not and still am not a computer whiz, but I was attracted to the interactive games and messaging. You would have to see vector graphic "3D Startrek" to believe how primitive this was....one step above "Pong" but you could play with people across the continental US. ANYWAY....I discovered that Plato had a slight flaw in that there was a way that you could overwrite letters without erasing them and create new symbols. I combined "8,Y,+, and X" and got a symbol that looked like an egyptian Scarab beetle. This became my marker and nickname from that day on. Scarab (wish there was a way to do that little symbol here)