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Whats your nick/alias history?

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I just read a thread which pickle replied to...and I thought...huh...don't we have an onion somewhere around these parts too? Haha.

Then I got to thinking...why did I ever choose "Hockey" and the answer is...well...it was the first name I ever picked back in grade school (when I actually watched, played, etc) and it's the name that I almost always still use. A pretty boring history really, hopefully your choice is more interesting.

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My mother chose my current nick, apparently it was the first in a book of names that didn't remind her of someone she disliked.

I used to go by TXL, named for the computer in a childrens show called "Today's Special" - it was in love with the security guard and could make sandwiches. I actually named my first several computers that, but now just call them "kieran" and "kieran2go" (desktop / laptop).

I remember people thinking I was a large Texan, but could never understand why... I'm neither large nor Texan.
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I've only ever been "d11wtq" and more recently started identifying myself under my real name on web forums since I like people to know who they're dealing with :) Java Ranch have an interesting *requirement* that you use your real name on their forums since people are far less likely to start flaming and sling abuse if its done under a real name. It makes people more aware they're talking to a person not a computer, and of course it gives potential employer the chance to search your name and get a bit of a character reference (provided you're not a jerk :P).

I still use my d11wtq username on websites which don't use my username publicly.
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Chris Corbyn wrote:...search your name and get a bit of a character reference (provided you're not a jerk :P).
8O :banghead:

Incidentally, that was your 11111th post!

Also, where the hell did you come up with d11wtq?
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Hehe :)

d11wtq is actually completely mind numbingly boring. It was my ITS username at Durham University and I just stuck with it outside of uni so I didn't have to remember yet another username/password :P
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Kieran Huggins wrote:I remember people thinking I was a large Texan, but could never understand why... I'm neither large nor Texan.
Hahaha...
It makes people more aware they're talking to a person not a computer, and of course it gives potential employer the chance to search your name and get a bit of a character reference (provided you're not a jerk ).
Thats what I was thinking actually...is maybe it's time to use my real name to increase my exposure basically...but that might come at the cost of embaressment if I answered a post wrong or made some stupid remark...
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Chris Corbyn wrote:Hehe :)

d11wtq is actually completely mind numbingly boring. It was my ITS username at Durham University and I just stuck with it outside of uni so I didn't have to remember yet another username/password :P
my password i use for pretty much everything is my old college ID number, just seemed easier to remember than 3 trillion different passwords
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It was originally (in my CounterStrike and Quake/UT days) jeNK^. To choose it, I literally held one hand over my eyes, and poked the keyboard with the other. I even hit caps lock in between the e and N strokes, and I added the circumflex/exponential for a little flare.

I've since grown up, and I am now Jenk.
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Jcart = John Cartwright :drunk:

For those of you around long enough you may remember my username being "Phenom", short for "John John Phenom" which routed back to my counterstrike days.
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Sorry, my nickname's story is boring. It's my first name. Wasn't creative enough at the moment of registering to come up with something .. :|
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No idea... The Ninja Space Goat was long and random enough to have not been registered... that's about it. Actually when I signed up I was "One armed space goat" but I had feyd change it.

In just about every other place I go by Nozavroni which is something a friend of mine used to call me because he was making fun of my last name (Visinoni).
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shiznatix evolved from the word <span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> and took different meaning at different times but it kinda went like this:

<span style='color:blue' title='I&#39;m naughty, are you naughty?'>smurf</span> -> sheeet -> shizeet -> shiznit -> shiznat -> shiznatix

I came to shiznatix when I was looking for a handle for CS that nobody else had ever used but was easy to spell / pronounce. I came up with shiznatix and after a google search came up with no results, it stuck. As far as I know, to this day I am the only shiznatix on the web.
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Heheh this a fun thread.

I was really bad at spelling as a kid, hence ole => Ollie. We're talking really young here, like five or six. Later I found out about the Microsoft technology OLE. Bastards. ole is actually a real name in some countries. Basically there's more than a couple of namespacing issues going on with ole but I still like it's simplicity.

For a while I was ole_v2 after I decided that I'd been upgraded some how. At least that's what I said, in fact it's more likely down to the fact ole was already taken on a lot of stuff.
I remember people thinking I was a large Texan, but could never understand why... I'm neither large nor Texan.
In the video industry TX is short for transmission. Is that interesting? It's not is it.
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ole wrote:For a while I was ole_v2 after I decided that I'd been upgraded some how.
In the spirit of the other thread... ole - v2.0:
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ole wrote:Is that interesting? It's not is it.
No. :rofl:
Hockey wrote:but that might come at the cost of embarrassment if I answered a post wrong or made some stupid remark...
What about spelling mistakes? (I kid, I kid!)

Seriously though, the amount of raw data we pump onto the web obfuscates what little embarrassment can be found. And if someone is stalking me hard enough to find photos of me in a dress, they'll either:
  • a: have to wade through all my (presumably) positive contributions to get there, or
    b: have serious issues
    c: all of the above
Besides, who doesn't screw up from time to time? I made a Titanic joke today... too soon? The answer, apparently, is yes. :oops:
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ole wrote:For a while I was ole_v2 after I decided that I'd been upgraded some how. At least that's what I said, in fact it's more likely down to the fact ole was already taken on a lot of stuff.
OLE V2 ... nice :)

You should have renamed yourself ActiveX and eventually become .Net. :P
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