Screen Names - want to explain yours?

codex57 · Sep 29, 2004

Mine's kinda nerdy.

I went to a nerd high school. Had friends that went on BBS boards. That's where the 57 came in. The main BBS I was on assigned you a number, but you could change your screen name. Everyone was always changing names so we looked for the number to identify ourselves.

Codex was a product of me being a nerd. I opened the dictionary and started looking for a cool counding word. It means an ancient text, like the Bible. I like to read and actually like history so I picked it.

///M SPEED · Sep 29, 2004

xLibelle said:

Hehe, I like dragonfly’s. I agree they are interesting insects. My other nickname is Dragon (born the year of the Dragon and I love the theory of Dragons).

My nick is sort of self-explanatory. I Love the M's and I love racing and things that go fast, always have always will. I knew I would be getting an M one day and it is kind of like God Speed.....

vlad · Sep 29, 2004

Me? I love horror movies.. so a friend started calling me that.

longshanks · Sep 30, 2004

longshanks - for anyone that has ever seen the movie Braveheart, i like longshanks for his attitude of being a badass i.e throwing his sons boyfriend out the window [rofl]

mjbst111 · Sep 30, 2004

mjbst111 - it was my email address at Univ of Pittsburgh. MJB-my initials, st-student, 111-one hundred and eleventh person at Pitt to have thos initials.

I figured it'd be easy to remember and I was pretty sure no one else would want the screen name - haha...

mortgage4u · Sep 30, 2004

pretty self explainatory,

I'm a mortgage loan officer for H&R Block Mortgage.

selavia · Sep 30, 2004

mine is pretty simple, but there's a story behind it. my first name is Sean and my last, Elavia; hence Selavia. However, back in middle school we were addressed by our first initial and last name; so entering the fifth grade the teach didn't read carefully and she pronouced my name slavia, and so from that day forward (even in high school) whenever I played sports or did anything that was remotely competitive my buddies would yelled out Ugoslavia (You Go Selavia). I guess that's not really an interesting or note worthy story, but whatever.

Sean

selavia · Sep 30, 2004

BTW, a pat on the back to anyone who can tell me exactly what I'm saying under my screen name and who said it. And you cannot look it up online; that's cheating! Sean

jszar · Sep 30, 2004

jszar = Jared Szaroleta (its pronounced 'zar-o-le-ta'....not 'zaralata' not 'zarolEEta'!)
couldnt think of anything too creative when i signed up at the first forum online a year or so back...thats where it came from.

it Polish if anyone is curious, most people ask what nationality it is.

good thread btw. nice idea kirby....i have always wondered, but never thought to start a thread about it.

xLibelle · Sep 30, 2004

oh.. good point, ive met a lot of people on line and they all say my name like "lible" wth!!
Its Li(soft i)-bell ...German, bitches! [:D]

xLibelle · Sep 30, 2004

jszar said:

this is like our third thread about this

Section_8 · Oct 1, 2004

Ok, this is a sorta long one, befitting my old age (ducking from BigD). [:D]

Section 8 - I picked this alias in '84, (yes 20 years ago) and have used it on every single program that's ever needed a name for me - from mail to games, to forums, to whatEVER. If you've seen Section_8, more than likely it's me, at least before '95 when 2 different bands selected that name. It all began in '84, in my early C64 pirating days, where I found QLink, one of the first ever online methods of chatting - at 300 BAUD ASCII (yes, 300 baud, I can almost type that fast...). Moved into the IBM world in the late 80's, joined a major underground hacking group (SAOO), and made CERT newslines a few times with this name. Joined a few underground art groups in the early 90's while I hit the IBM pirating scene (was in iCE and started BAD with a few local friends at the time). Still have some of my old S8 ansi's if anyone wants them (You can find them there in my personal gallery at their website, I think it's www.insanecreatorsenterprises.com or something like that these days).

Still using it to this day, in every form of communication outside of 'RL' talk where I use real name emails..

It fit me back in 84, and did until the late 90's. I guess I'm not insane and so wild anymore, but it's like a real name now, can't give it up. [:)]

Bet you weren't expecting this??

Kirby · Oct 1, 2004

Section_8 said:

I had you figured for a MASH fan, Cpl. Maxwell Klinger & his section 8 games.

Oh man, C64/C128, 1541 floppy drives, SX64 portable, 1702 monitors, mps (crap) printers. What a blast from the past! While you were pirating in 1984, I had started a part time evening/weekend business servicing them fresh out of college, making about $100 - $150 a week on the side (not bad for a part time business in 1984!). Did you ever run GEOS on your Commodore?

MyHarley · Oct 1, 2004

Section_8 said:

I'm laughing, I have no idea what you're post is talking about..........in '84 I purchased an Adam Computer from Toys R Us..........and BTW, loved it........and I'm probably older than you.........jeez I'm sheltered...... [clap]

xLibelle · Oct 2, 2004

hey section 8... one of my teachers in EE was just as enthusiastic. AMF, he was working for the us military and man'd keeping their missle defense system afloat, talking about "libraries" of boards ($1,000,000 a board) with chips and each with mearly a couple transistors within.
He was the first to design and have published, a "smart home" based on apple and voice recognition. He taught us all about mr gates' first code, which he was a part of a team that would break and define this code M$ used to run their systems. Actually, for a couple weeks, that was most of my testing, on how M$ had devised such a system to utilize such little hdd space.... one of the most amazing classes i ever had.
thank you Mr Blankenship

epj3 · Oct 2, 2004

My sn is my initials + a 3... back in 92! When we got AOL right after they came out, I needed a screen name and back then they required at least 4 characters and at least 1 number in that. So... i used my initials + a 3.

Fortunately we got rid of aol as soon as we discovered prolog here in pennsylvania... which we are still with, but now, only a few thousand times faster than that first AOL connection [:p]

Section_8 · Oct 4, 2004

Kirby said:

Geos sounds so darn familiar, but I don't think I did. I used to have one of those cartridges that sped things up (I think it added a whopping 24k or something to the already huge 64k the C64 was cranking. [:)]

I can't recall what GEOS was for, but I remember the name.

Yah that WAS good dough for the 80's, especially to fix a one board computer! I think I ran through like 5 or 6 of em before I went to IBM's.

I am a MASH fan too btw. [;)]

I used to run a C64 BBS (at 1200 baud of all things..) I had 3 1541's daisy chained together along with a 1571, giving me a total of a whole MEG of space! [:)]

think I was running Color 64 software, which was actually a 'networked' message base, along with online games, and whatnot. Pretty snazzy for a Commodore, in 1990.

Lisha - Geektalk is another language, isn't it? [:D]

Truly though I am making light of all my 'naughty' acts before I turned 18, I was a 'responsible' hacker, vs the virus loving, GUI hack tool using kids of today. We actually 'knew' things about Internet and PC's back then, and were not all hopped up to bring the system down, moreso we wanted to figure out how to use it, and get IN. (Which getting on internet in the late 80's/early 90's wasn't simple, or as easy as calling an ISP today!)

jszar · Oct 4, 2004

xLibelle said:

i've been here like 10 months, and i have never seen a thread about this....maybe i just missed it. oh well. still a good thread.

xLibelle · Oct 4, 2004

jszar said:

reposts dont bother me unless they are pointless ones like ooooooold videos, etc.

MrElussive · Oct 4, 2004

Mr. Elusive, spelled MrElussive (to avoid adding in numbers since I use this sn/user id for mostly everything, online games, free e-mail accounts, other forum ID's, etc.).
I jacked this name from one of the programmers at id Software, the guys who made Wolfenstein, Doom 1/2/3, Quake 1/2/3, etfc. I'm a HUGE id Software fan....I was there from the beginning when Wolfenstein was freeware and nobody really knew about it and to this day they still make the fast-paced first-person shooters that I love.

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