What's the meaning/story behind your username?

[sixone]

It's the answer to the first question people ask me.

 

[Anubis]

your age?
Your IQ"
Your Pants size?

 

[sixone]

your age?
Your IQ"
Your Pants size?

This is the first time I've ever encountered anyone who couldn't count past ten. Congratulations!

 

[skyking]

you will find this question has been asked a few times.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=293494&highlight=your+username
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=177288&highlight=your+username
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=3226&highlight=your+username
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1736915&highlight=your+username
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1609122&highlight=your+username
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1557724&highlight=your+username
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1414388&highlight=your+username

This one is tagged **official** This used to mean something......
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1036846&highlight=your+username

Our friend Zebo does some calling out in this one
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=930607&highlight=your+username

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=508850&highlight=your+username

It is from newest to oldest thread. Lots of memories there

 

[Anubis]

This is the first time I've ever encountered anyone who couldn't count past ten. Congratulations!

11

 

[sixone]

11

Do you pronounce that "one-one"?

 

[JEDI]

It's the answer to the first question people ask me.

How many men you've had?
in high school

 

[Bartman39]

Picked up the nickname since 1974 while in school (way before the Simpsons )... Was driving a stock car at age 14 and the name just caught on at the track... (had my hardship license at 14 so could drive at a track back then)

 

[ThinClient]

I got mine playing with a Ouija board.

 

[highland145]

Well, my post miss appeared so I'll do it again.


I'm high.
I would like to land in 1 piece.
I was once 45.



Bastard internets poops craps asparagus..

 

[HamburgerBoy]

I love hamburgers, felt a need to establish my gender (used to be confused for a girl often), was 9 years old when I started using it, and empathized with Doug's episode in the Hamburger Boy costume.

 

[child of wonder]

Joined a forum run by a co-worker back in 1999 and needed a username since I had never joined one before. This one just popped into my head and stuck ever since.

 

[herm0016]

was my aim handle... and everything came after aim.

just kept using it. would like to get rid of the numbers. it's also a nickname people call me. "herm". also part of my family name.

 

[Maximilian]

Its my name, boring huh

Used to be called "Soviet" as i was a C&C fan but then EA killed the franchise and blah blah... Maximilian

 

[manimal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iQ-mzYRl3s

mf panthers bros

 

[zinfamous]

I'm more than famous, like El Guapo.

 

[Leros]

I needed a mythical name for a character in a video game. I went to Wikipedia and hit random article over and over again. One of the articles I came across was about the Greek island of Leros. I used that as the first name of my character and now I use it as my username on a few websites.

 

[Ichinisan]

It's the answer to the first question people ask me.

I remember when the first question in a chat room was always "a/s/l?" In 1996, my brother created an AOL user: "m16ga" (or something like that)

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9ZChN8LQQ8

Been using this username since forever.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

 

[John Connor]

Well, I'm the leader of the resistance and I have all the DVDs to prove it.

 

[cronos]

I reinvented my online persona back in 2004 when gmail was invitation only and since I was invited pretty early on I got a chance to choose a relatively short, easy to remember, nickname.

Six digits is the shortest gmail address allowed, and I've always liked greek mythology (had a couple of greek-myth-based handles before), so I decided on one of the titans.

 

[SlickSnake]

 

[Ichinisan]

I reinvented my online persona back in 2004 when gmail was invitation only and since I was invited pretty early on I got a chance to choose a relatively short, easy to remember, nickname.

Six digits is the shortest gmail address allowed, and I've always liked greek mythology (had a couple of greek-myth-based handles before), so I decided on one of the titans.

Well, lets just reveal your real email address to all those web-crawling spambots:
chronose@gmail.com

I screwed it up.

 

[Ichinisan]

Mine:
I was "Mister Blister" for a while on the SNES X-Band video game network in 1996/1997. I saw that name in the manual. I had tried several of the usernames I saw there. The rest were taken. I was messaged out-of-the-blue a few times from other users that thought I was a Catapult employee (and that's kinda the reason I did it). I had another account called "Nutbucket." One of the avatar pics was an alien head with visible brain. The low-fidelity of SNES made the brain look like peanuts...so I thought "Nutbucket" was a funny name.

Later, I couldn't get inspired. I tried a few things, like "FraggleGod" and something else. I missed X-BAND and started using zbattle.net to find other people to play SNES games against with the ZSNES emulator. I would play mostly Tetris Attack and Killer Instinct. There were a couple of challenging TA players (only a couple), and almost no challenging KI players (until Atmos showed up). To attract attention from KI fans, I named myself after a KI character's special move: B. Orchid's "Ichi Ni San" -- I already knew that it was Japanese for "1,2,3" -- but that's almost all the Japanese I know.