Where does your username come from ?

[scb147]

The letters in my username are my initials... the 147 were just numbers Penn State University assigned to me when I started there my freshman year. It was my email username while I was there. I just started using it from then on...

[ACTCMS]

I got my online name back in the seventies... I was the senior systems programmer for the European arm of a multi-national. We installed a private world wide network (US, UK, France, Germany, Far East) using IBM's VM/370 OS and leased phone lines. European user's handles were based on their three initals and 'CMS' (for Conversational Monitoring System, which was the interactive OS which ran under VM - bit like having a PC on a lan now) - so mine ended up as ACTCMS. BTW the capitals are not shouting - just in those days, few of the keyboards had lower case capability. Must get myself an avatar though...

Re; the Guinness in the other thread - my two grandsons were born in Dublin and stayed there for about 4 years - so I've had a few pints of the real Liffey water - there's a superb pub in the north-east of Dublin nicknamed 'The Diggers' - worth a visit. BTW don't let anyone kid you on that guinness anywhere else in the world whether on tap, in bottles, in cans, with widgets, without widgets, imported, exported bears even the slightest resemblance to the real stuff.

[bgowland]

William Hurlston. (The wife is the creative one in the family.)

As with William here, I guess most people who've read any of my posts will have worked out my first name is Brian. Work the rest out for yourselves.

I've had more creative handles on BBs and forums over the years but tend to stick with this one mostly these days.

Cheers,
Brian

[whurlston]

I've had more creative handles on BBs and forums over the years but tend to stick with this one mostly these days.

Same here, but Nitro and Vlad became too popular and I just got sick of trying to come up with variations that weren't already taken on a particular server.

[nia]

Initials - pure and simple.

At an earlier job people actually called me "nia" rather than my real name.

Got a variation "dknia" - dk being the ISO abbreviation for Denmark. Came with another job with that kind of naming convention.

In the old BBS-days before the Internet I was Sharkey, based on an old Laurie Anderson character, but that's just used by so many these days that I have long buried it.

/Niels

[zaphod7501]

Zaphod Beeblebrox was a character in the "Increasingly Misnamed" five book trilogy "Hitchhikers Guide To To The Universe" by the late Douglas Adams. Beeblebrox turned out to be too long for some BBS forums and email hosts when I started on-line activities, so zaphod got picked.

This turned out to be a problem as more Zaphod's showed up and I picked the street address of my business as a tack-on identifier. (at least I hope there aren't 7500 others)

Once you start with a screen name, it's hard to change in mid-stream. It's kind of spooky to do a "Google" search for a problem and find your own posts from months and years ago on the topic that you forgot about. (sometimes you need new solutions for old problems)

[zehd]

I think I said this before, but my last name starts with a zed, and being Canadian, and stereotypically, say 'eh' a lot, I made the redundant redundant distinction of spelling the Commonwealth pronunciation of zee as zehd...

There's a zed here on the boards, but I didn't even try that spelling. Seems zehd is just far enough out there, that there's always a place for him...

[dvasco]

Username is for my online alias, Diego Vasco, short and simple. My real last name is from my great-grandfather who was from Vizcaya, Spain which is Basque territory. Even Mexicans have a hard time pronouncing my real last name so a shorter and easier one was chosen for online use. Basque in Spanish is Vasco. My great-grandfather was from the same town, Balmaseda, as that of the first European, Pedro de Terreros, after the Vikings to set foot on continental American soil. It was on one of Columbus' voyages.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmaseda http://josebandoni-s.iespana.es/la%20villa.htm
My avatar is of a tourism poster of Mexico which I think of as a very nice but also has a good friend of my father in it and also represents the national sport of Mexico, of which my grandfather started a group in a town in Mexico and my uncles became national champions and started rules that are still in place today. My father was also a very good bull and bronc rider and also a cousin of a cousin of mine, Hugo Pedrero, was in the Professional Bull Rider World Cup in Australia and also in PBR Chihuahua.
http://www.pbrnow.com/worldcup/WorldCupDraw.cfm?tab=7

[kayleigh]

Mine comes from my favorite song. I've used it since about 1996. Sometimes it's been claimed, so I'll tack on my birthday (kayleigh1229).

[mian]

It's my Chinese name, chosen （via phonetics, not meaning) for me by an old professor.

密安

Sometimes it's been claimed, so I'll tack on my birthday (kayleigh1229).

:eek: Soo... How about them Crusades?