About Michael Hanselmann

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Welcome to my personal website.

I’m a regular author on the Forkbomb weblog (German).

Why “hansmi” as nick- and domain name?

There have been people asking me why I use “hansmi” as my nickname, thus I want to describe it here in short.

The nickname, “hansmi”, consists out of the first characters of my realname, Hanselmann Michael. Its history goes back quite a bit, to when I was in school and got a login for the computers there. “hanmic” was already taken, so I got “hansmi” instead. I started using it on the Internet around the year 2000. Obviously, I didn’t change my nickname since.