Late 2004. That was when I started getting bored with orkut because there were just a handful of Indians in the social network site.

So I discovered blogging and the Mizo online community.

The first hurdle was selecting a good online nick, because I knew that online nicks were something people are associated with in the real world. Long before MIRC came into the scene, I was a chat addict at this chat application called Pearch or Perch… something like that. The nick I used back then was “silverchild”. Those were the days Netscape was popular and Napster was a daily ritual.But then I found out there were actually Khasis whose real names were Silverchild, Goldenboy and Aluminium-girl! (ok ok I exaggerated about the last one so I stopped using the name “Silverchild”.

Discover how Illusionaire finally found his nick.