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The Evolution of Your Usernames
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:19pm
by HemlockGrey
How many usernames have you had over the ages? I started out with 'Challenger' for two years and then after a while I went over to 'Cyril' for two years and now I've got 'HemlockGrey', thank to the auspicious and muchly under-appreciated Lord Wong.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:20pm
by phongn
I've generally used my real name or some abbreviation of it.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:21pm
by Evil Sadistic Bastard
I am what I am.
(Points to username)
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:22pm
by TrailerParkJawa
I have 3-4 user names I ve used for a long time. TPJ is the most recent. I used to change names as I grew tired of them, but now I leave them alone.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:22pm
by Anarchist Bunny
Started off with Jacen Solo in a RP Chat Room, moved on to Buu the most hated and utter annoying decitizen of the MUD Alanthia, about the same time I picked up Anarchist Bunny and used it from IM and e-mail usernames, used it here as well.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:24pm
by Enforcer Talen
I wrote enforcer talen as a pc from one of my stories online, and have been using the name for four yrs.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:27pm
by Raptor 597
Lennox, always has been, but lower the pic Enforcer!
*Bes annoying*
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:27pm
by Exonerate
Mine is relatively recent (this year), but all my old ones sucked, and ended with a number
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:28pm
by Temjin
My very first username I ever used was the ultra-creative Dave.
After that, I went from Bratboy, The_Brat and Temjin.
Now though, when I sign up for a new board, I'll ussualy go with Darfasti.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:30pm
by Enforcer Talen
Captain Lennox wrote:Lennox, always has been, but lower the pic Enforcer!
*Bes annoying*
I'd swear, if my sig wasnt here for people to talk about, this site would die in a week.
the post counts just spiral upwards with my sig in view.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:30pm
by Alyrium Denryle
Alyrium Denryle
Alyskarian
moonblade
AIIF-Harbinger
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:34pm
by weemadando
Started out as Anders Russell.
Then moved to WeeMadAndo.
Been that ever since.
For ATJ, AIIF and other crusades I'll use a variant on the WMA initials.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:35pm
by Evil Sadistic Bastard
weemadando wrote:Started out as Anders Russell.
Then moved to WeeMadAndo.
Been that ever since.
For ATJ, AIIF and other crusades I'll use a variant on the WMA initials.
How about Zaia or Ewo?
*bambi eyes*
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:38pm
by XaLEv
I have used Kupop, Janus, Angel of Discord, KalEv and XaLEv.
Re: The Evolution of Your Usernames
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:39pm
by Rob Wilson
HemlockGrey wrote:How many usernames have you had over the ages? I started out with 'Challenger' for two years and then after a while I went over to 'Cyril' for two years and now I've got 'HemlockGrey', thank to the auspicious and muchly under-appreciated Lord Wong.
I first posted to ASVS as Rob.Wn5 as that was my Intranet address name and I posted from work without knowing to change it, rather than mess around and change I simply made sure it was the same on my home machine and Rob.wn5 I've been on ASVS ever since. However whenever I sign up to a new place (rare) I use my real name (what I would have used on ASVS if I'd known to do it in the first place.).
No non de plumes I'm afraid, just boring old Rob Wilson. MAybe i should change it to Plain Vanilla.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:45pm
by Alyeska
I started out with dde as my name for any single player game I did. Then I signed up for Westwood Chat to play Red Alert and that name was taken. So I choose Alyeska and have used that name ever since. From time to time I find it taken somewhere so I alter it with clan/squadron/tribe/member names for a group I might be part of or I place 23 at the end of the name.
Posted: 2002-12-09 09:49pm
by Stormbringer
This is the one and only name I've used. I'm only on a few boards and I only post on here and Spacebattles.com regularly.
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:06pm
by Spanky The Dolphin
Spanky The Dolphin is all I've ever used for everything for the past four years.
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:13pm
by The Duchess of Zeon
Well, people started calling me "Countess" because I have a tendency to prefer a nighttime schedule, and the allusion was of course to, ah, the feminine version of a certain Transylvanian's title.
So my handle was "Countess Marina" as a local poster on Warships1 forums on EZBoard for a long time; but then I wanted to post at other EZBoards at got a global account. Needed a different name for it.
Continuing the nobility theme I decided that my favourite little Iron Duchy from the Dark Side of the Moon would be appropriate - Zeon, home to orbital habitats, hopeless resistance against an omnipresent one-world government, and pointless militarism. I especially like the orbital habitats; I think we could use some O'Neil Island IIIs as soon as technologically feasable.
(I remember one time getting in a debate with the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, advocating concentrating the resources of our society on an effort to move our entire population into space, and then letting the Earth return to a pastoral state, saying that the damage done over that time period would not be irrecoverable for the planet. It REALLY got them riled up. I liked that.)
So, "The Duchess of Zeon" it was. And I've alternatively used the two since.
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:17pm
by Next of Kin
I've used Next of Kin as a message board name for the last 5 years. There really isn't a grandiose story that goes along with it. I though it had a nice ring to it. When I choose a handle, I always ask myself if the name would fly in the WWE!
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:25pm
by Darth Yoshi
First came redbaron. Then came shinigami. Then shinigamiomega. And finally, Darth Yoshi.
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:26pm
by Rob Wilson
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Well, people started calling me "Countess" because I have a tendency to prefer a nighttime schedule, and the allusion was of course to, ah, the feminine version of a certain Transylvanian's title.
So my handle was "Countess Marina" as a local poster on Warships1 forums on EZBoard for a long time; but then I wanted to post at other EZBoards at got a global account. Needed a different name for it.
Continuing the nobility theme I decided that my favourite little Iron Duchy from the Dark Side of the Moon would be appropriate - Zeon, home to orbital habitats, hopeless resistance against an omnipresent one-world government, and pointless militarism. I especially like the orbital habitats; I think we could use some O'Neil Island IIIs as soon as technologically feasable.
So, "The Duchess of Zeon" it was. And I've alternatively used the two since.
what about Major Svetlanna?
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:27pm
by The Duchess of Zeon
Rob Wilson wrote:The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Well, people started calling me "Countess" because I have a tendency to prefer a nighttime schedule, and the allusion was of course to, ah, the feminine version of a certain Transylvanian's title.
So my handle was "Countess Marina" as a local poster on Warships1 forums on EZBoard for a long time; but then I wanted to post at other EZBoards at got a global account. Needed a different name for it.
Continuing the nobility theme I decided that my favourite little Iron Duchy from the Dark Side of the Moon would be appropriate - Zeon, home to orbital habitats, hopeless resistance against an omnipresent one-world government, and pointless militarism. I especially like the orbital habitats; I think we could use some O'Neil Island IIIs as soon as technologically feasable.
So, "The Duchess of Zeon" it was. And I've alternatively used the two since.
what about Major Svetlanna?
That's an AOL SN I used for a post-apocalyptic online RPG.
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:28pm
by Kuja
The Duchess of Zeon wrote:Continuing the nobility theme I decided that my favourite little Iron Duchy from the Dark Side of the Moon would be appropriate - Zeon, home to orbital habitats, hopeless resistance against an omnipresent one-world government, and pointless militarism. I especially like the orbital habitats; I think we could use some O'Neil Island IIIs as soon as technologically feasable.
A Zeonic fan, eh? Ever try any of the OYW games?
Posted: 2002-12-09 10:35pm
by ArmorPierce
I started with ion thrust just cause I thought it was cool, then I got loner123 or loner153 or the loner after reading the book "the loner", then I got sultan suleyman or sultan seljuk or sultan osman after the turks becom my favorite civ in age of empires and then raw blade, then I got laserbeambandit for newgrounds, and finally armorpierce after being armor piercing in Counterstrike. I missed a few and may have got the dates for some of them wrong.