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LongCoolMother

Diamond Member
Sep 4, 2001
5,675
0
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i am LongCoolMother ONLY on anandtech. everywhere else i am dslfoolish. AIM, membership, email, forums, all dslfoolish. except here.
 

lavagirl669

Diamond Member
Apr 21, 2004
3,325
1
0
Consistent....except for adding on the 669
because my main identity "Lavagirl" is always taken :(
 

Bryophyte

Lifer
Apr 25, 2001
13,430
13
81
Last few years I've been using Bryophyte consistently. I've stopped using/dropped past identities (corrigan, corrigan_99, iamjem.) My spouse uses a new identity with every board. I think he's paranoid about people recognizing him from other places, but I hardly see how that's possible considering he is very opposed to posting more than a few times on any particular board. He has no interest in developing an online personna or cultivating online friendships and seems to look down on those who do (me included, I imagine.)
 

Tremulant

Diamond Member
Jul 2, 2004
4,890
1
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Pretty consistent. But I do change every few years, mainly because I get tired of some names. Actually, people I've known for years still call me 'cc' cause that was short for a name I used to use.

Some names I don't really like, or I don't feel that they fit, so I don't use them.

EDIT: I'm positive I'm not the only 'Tremulant.' But I'm fairly sure that I am the only 'juice-tan.'
 

meltdown75

Lifer
Nov 17, 2004
37,548
7
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Originally posted by: KarenMarie
I was the original KarenMarie. When I started on the internet... well, the superhighway was only 2 lanes back then. There were not many girls online and I was the only KarenMarie around.

But when I moved from the UK to the USA, I had to reregister a lot of stuff and KarenMarie was taken in a lot of places. I remember reregistering on IRC and hacving ppl contacting me about stuff we did online ....!!!.... someone else had the name for a while.

Popular places, like yahoo, msn... etc.. someone else has KarenMarie registered alreaddy. But geek places like this, I am safe.

:)

:brokenheart:

just kidding it was good for a :)

:beer:
 

montanafan

Diamond Member
Nov 7, 1999
3,551
2
71
I've been montanafan on all the boards since '99. The only place I use another name is ebay. I don't do IM.
 

jds2006

Golden Member
Jun 12, 2005
1,326
0
0
Inconsistent. Lets see... I have pinkey, pinkeywear, boxrs0rbriefs, ~*Jane*~, medefinesshort, peanutbutterbbb, itszlikewhoa... just to name a few.
 

rgwalt

Diamond Member
Apr 22, 2000
7,393
0
0
I'm rgwalt on every forum I visit. It was the username/e-mail address I chose for myself when I went to college in 97, and it just seemed easier to remember one alias than multiple ones. I don't really care if someone knows who I am from forum to forum and place to place on line.

R
 

Quasmo

Diamond Member
Jul 7, 2004
9,630
1
76
Originally posted by: CraigRT
same SN for everything.... even online games

I use Drunkhobo for online gaming... used to own Drunkhobo.com
 

magomago

Lifer
Sep 28, 2002
10,973
14
76
I used to. Then a friend decdied to google me and I noticed how it was very possible to find out almost everything about me by using my old name. Then I started to mix it upa little bit, hence where this came from
 

yokomo

Golden Member
Oct 18, 2000
1,275
0
71
Usually I was killerloop but that was taken or I just could not use it so I settled for yokomo it was the first thing I thought of the day signed up in here and it has stuck for all the boards I attend now...
 

eelw

Lifer
Dec 4, 1999
10,334
5,487
136
consistent - unless the site needs a longer username, then I add some numbers after