This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
Surname plus 3 random numbers
Because I like these little guys: Grasshopper Mouse
I’m a squirrel.
and I’m a tuna!
Caveman eat tuna
Hi tuna!
Hello!
/dev/urandomTake a guess 😅
Ironic name like calling a large person Tiny.
Clearly you are a young whippersnapper!
When Counterstrike first came out a quarter century ago one friend had a PC and we would take turns playing it and wanted to compare stats on some 3rd party stat tracking site so we could talk shit on each other. Finding a unique name was a pain, but I got lucky with this one, which is probably based on something Jay from Clerks said.
I’ve been lucky that it isn’t taken when signing up for stuff so I keep using it. A happy little accident.
Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.
Holy shit you’re the guy. Keep being based.
Are you friends with count zero :-) ?
Another computer error.
Hah no never heard of them :D
From Willian Gibsons (the guy who coined ‘Cyberspace’) book Count Zero, if you put zero on the interrupt on address zero you’ll just get stuck in an neverending cycle.
And it was the chosen nick of Bobby in the book.
Ah right, that did sound familiar been decades since I read that book 😅
Aw man, a great William Gibson reference.
TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.
Old demo crew I formed with school friends when I was a teenager.
My page name, ShinigamiOokamiRyuu, is an amalgamation of different anime characters from anime whose characters I have cosplayed as.
My nickname (the thing that says “Call me Lenny/Leni”) is based on one of my nickname preferences. I have quite a few, my birth name being Valentina, which allows for a lot of nicknames (including Leni, which is one of the shorthands for Valentina, though Tina is the most popular) that get changed around depending on who I communicate with.
“Corno” is just a username I made up in my head since I like how it sounds and I was weirdly craving some cornflakes while signing up. As for my display name, that’s…well, my name! 😃
Sorry to bring bad news, but corno in Brazil is slang to having been cheated on…
Bitwarden username generator 👍
Mine is a cheat code for Castlevania III on NES. Which is, I believe, the name of one of the developers of the game.
I like nicknames that are short and have no real meaning that just kind of sound like they could be a name.
HEXN3T stands out and was only taken on PSN, apparently.
I first used this name during the “lulz xD so rAnDum” era, and I like to draw. So, RandomStickman
My cousin, brother and I used to get high and play MTG quite a bit back in the day. There’s a card called “Reef Pirates” that we used to joke around and call them Reefer Pirates. When I was making an account on Diablo 2 some time around then it’s what popped into my head and stuck.
