How did you choose/get your nickname ?

[DarkZell666]

This is something I've been wondering about for some time now : how to people choose (or get from others) their nicknames ?

Mine is quite old (from when I was still pre-teen, I'm 19 now :/) :
Dark - just a silly wanabe prefix
Zell - my fav ff8 character at the time
666 - another silly wanabe thing (I'm no satanist ;))

My other (more commonly used nickname) is XaS.
One night, when founding our first counter-strike team (-={?a?}=-) we decided to invent nicknames with 3 letters (preferably with an A in the middle, but there were only few possibilities so we dropped that last condition xD).
I chose XaS 'coz I wanted one with an X in it.
And there it was ^^ I've been using it for 5 years now.

How about you ? ;)

[Waleska]

Your nick was pointless before the explanation, now it's pointless and pathetic, no offense :D

[dani82]

well, when i joined, dani through dani81 was already taken, so i had to settle when dani82

[CWR03]

I dropped a cat on the keyboard.

[buzzqw]

i hope the cat wasn't harmed by this shamefull procedure ? :D

btw, at work i had to reistall the WinXp on pc of our client, that was "hackered" by numerous pidgeons... regedit/IE/SyStem32 folders all get scrambled...

my nick came from an old pc game (i cannot even remember the name... i can suppose "Vendetta"), "The Buzzqw" was one of first enemy to splat...

BHH

[xyloy]

I got my nick by a random keyboard typing. :D

[check]

Opened up a dictionary and picked the first word I saw :)

[DarkZell666]

Nice findings here ^^ I find those methods pretty original ;)


But :

Your nick was pointless before the explanation, now it's pointless and pathetic, no offense :D
Did I say otherwise ? In fact it was the point of the hole thing, rofl. What about yours then Waleska ? your post was just as pointless as my nickname, no offense huh ? ;)

[Waleska]

My name is Waleska, no other nick would have honored me better :D

[hitbit]

Heatbeat was a brilliant musician active many years ago in the Amiga demo scene (heck, am I really this old?). I used his nick for some time as a kind of hommage to him, then I opted for the shorter, and with similar sound, "hitbit".

[Teegedeck]

I dropped a cat on the keyboard.Now this is what I call style. In order to top that for my next nick I think I'm gonna have a nekkid lady lash the keyboard with her whip while the members of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra will be inciting her with a hummed version of the Enterprise themesong (classic series) from behind the sofa. Standing in buckets of custard, of course.

Oh, I chose my current nick by picking the first word I saw when I let my gaze wander through the room.

[SeeMoreDigital]

Oh, I chose my current nick by picking the first word I saw when I let my gaze wander through the room.Hmmm..... Sounds like one of those "Keyser Soze" moments ;)

[Audionut]

I like audio, and as most of you would have guessed, i'm a nut.

[Mug Funky]

walking through a supermarket with my housemate, we came across mugs that had knockoff Shag paintings on them, most likely without permission.

the product name on the price thingy was "MUG, FUNKY - $3.00"

thought it sounded cool...

[Moitah]

I randomly made it up as a character name for a game I used to play. It was originally "Moytah" but later I changed the spelling.

[fccHandler]

"MUG, FUNKY - $3.00"
Lol, that's great! :D

I picked mine from VFW.H, because I wanted something geeky that only Windows programmers would understand. Contrary to what some people suppose, "fcc" does NOT refer to the Federal Communications Commission! It's actually an abbreviation of "FOURCC." My signature is a play on its resemblance to the word "Force," and my love of Star Wars.

[sysKin]

My surname translates to "siskin".

[Morte66]

I'm named after the first NPC you meet in the game Planescape: Torment, a sleazy flying skull called Morte. Only somebody already had Morte, so Morte66 it was.

[Arachnotron]

I used to play Doom a lot. In fact, I assembled my first computer just so I could play it. Arachnotron is one of the demons in that game.

[shevegen]

I picked a virtual char name. Since I dont like it a lot, I have often considered to change it to a more fitting to _myself_ but still i havent come up with a better one (i am lazy)

[deuce2]

When I was a kid ( a Canadian eh) they called me deuce because my last name is German...and the last part of my name is ...dorf and Dusseldorf is in Germany, I guess; kid logic. Don't ask me, :confused: I didn't pick it but it stuck. Since deuce (from the Duss part of Dusseldorf) is two I just put 2 and 2 together and there you have it. :o

[Boulder]

Mine comes from the old classic, Boulder Dash. I never was a great fan of the game, but somehow hearing the tune of the first game gets me back to the early 80s.

Yes, I'm an old fart.

[setarip_old]

It is a REFLECTION of my OPPOSITION to those who steal and disseminate the efforts of software authors/publishers. I'd be surprised if such people can "look themselves in the MIRROR" ;>}

[Gerard V]

Having read the previous posts I feel ashamed to admit that my nickname is simply my name. I usually sign emails as Gerard V or GV because in New Zealand where I live, people struggle a bit with my surname "Verschuren", and in order to avoid having them mangle it, I abbreviate it to V. This does not prevent them going on to mangle my first name but thats a different story.

I also use this nic as my stage name for hypnosis gigs because "The Amazing Whatever . ." and similar names don't work for me.

:cool:

[zambelli]

It's not much of a backstory... My nick is my last name. It's fairly uncommon, so I rarely run into situations where the user name is already taken and I have to come up with something else.

[bourtzovlakas]

My user name translates in Greek, as "extremely stupid"...
I also rarely run into situations where the user name is already taken, especially in Greek fora...

[Inheritthewind]

a classic golden oldie film, check it out here! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053946/)
we're all here for the films, right?

[JimS]

...
Mine is easy.
First name is James, nickname Jim.
Last name starts with an S.
...

[Firesurfer]

I used to play StarWars RPG with some friends. I had a smugglers vessel we called "Eimer" (Bucket). One Session we were chased by some Tie-Figthers. I I flew the bucket close to a sun to get rid of the Ties. Or Gamemaster had a shrewd sense of humor and said: "there's protuberances coming, brace for impact". I turned the ship saying "I'll surf that thing to get away from the Ties". He was impressed, we survived, et voilá: the name of the ship became Firesurfer. I used that nick at various places since then.

[DarkZell666]

Many are quite original indeed ;)

[smok3]

smoke* was a name of a software i was working on at that moment...., but that was taken everywhere so i changed last letter to get some 1337ness.

[Shinigami-Sama]

I picked a friend who was piss'n me off and threw him across the room
next day they started calling me this

[Sirber]

Sir Bérubé --> Sir Ber --> Sirber ;)

[johnhamler1]

too hard for me to find a nick name, here what I did:

john became john
and hamler became hamler
and I added 1

at the end: johnhamler1

[Isochroma]

One night in the semidark after a joint, a voice came out from between the fine edges of hyperreality and whispered it in my ear.

[rcubed]

My initials,

For those old Fortran Folks R**3

[SeeMoreDigital]

My name is a spin of "Three Wise Monkeys" saying, "To see no evil, hear no evil, and to speak no evil": -

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/6274/monkeysnikkojapan5vc.jpg

"See No" became "See More". With DRM and other forms of encryption being the "Evil" of any "Digital" media format ;)

[DarkZell666]

Lol, I like that one very much !

[clutch]

I picked something that has absolutely no relation to me. This is the internet you know.

Clutch

[smokeslikeapoet]

I worked at a restaurant back in 1999. I was smoking out back when this girl walks up to me and said, "You smoke like a poet." It stuck.

[bob0r]

My internet name is Bob.
When i try to type linux commands like: rm -r /test, i usually type this: rm 0r /test

So bob0r =)

[DarkZell666]

My internet name is Bob.
When i try to type linux commands like: rm -r /test, i usually type this: rm 0r /test

So bob0r =)

On what sort of plutonian keyboard can we find the - with the 0 key ? :D
Oh my it's true, at the very least the english keyboard has this particularity, here the - is with the 6 key ;) The 0 key has the à character (accentuated a, in case you can't see it) ^^

Edit: Actually, I've just noticed on doom9 that the pages are encoded in latin1 (ISO-8859-1), and the special char's aren't replaced by entities (no à to replace the à), so I suspect some of you won't be able to see the "accentuated a" ... sigh :rolleyes:

[MvB]

Just 3 letters taken from my exceptionally long name :)

[Dragon Shenron]

I like dragons and I'm a big fan of Dragon Ball... So...
Growing up on DBZ made me like Shenron cuz he makes all their wishes come true (when they gather the 7 spheres and summon him).

[HyperHacker]

"Hacker" because I was hacking Gameshark codes. "Hyper" because I was doing ~50 per day at least.
On what sort of plutonian keyboard can we find the - with the 0 key ? :D
Oh my it's true, at the very least the english keyboard has this particularity, here the - is with the 6 key ;) The 0 key has the à character (accentuated a, in case you can't see it) ^^

Edit: Actually, I've just noticed on doom9 that the pages are encoded in latin1 (ISO-8859-1), and the special char's aren't replaced by entities (no à to replace the à), so I suspect some of you won't be able to see the "accentuated a" ... sigh :rolleyes:
My US keyboard has the number keys at the top: `12...90-= backspace

[shakey]

Mine's from my first year at uni, my hands tend to shake a lot for some reason, so my hallmates decided my name was shakey.

[Solo_Senshi]

I've been using my nick since since about mid 2004.

Solo = on one's own; alone or unaccompanied
Senshi = Japanese word for warrior/soldier

So it's kinda like the lone warrior or something. Decided to put them together with an underscore, because I'm kinda dorky <_<;

[mimage]

I was saving images as "image1" "image2" "image3", then for some reason put an m in front of it one time and liked the way it looked, and because I like to mess around with images, I decided to use it as my name. :)

[cc979]

mine is a bike engine size - i would have liked to have ... in dreams :D

[ilovejedd]

This is Jedd: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/aerischan/avatar/ava-jedd.png

I hate him now but the name already stuck. It's already a lot of trouble remembering passwords. I didn't want to have to remember usernames, too, so I decided to use this for forums. As it is, I'm using at least 10 different nicks already.

Yeah, pretty lame.

[foxyshadis]

It sounded neat and kind of gothy, way back when I was writing fluffy rpgamer fanfics in high school, and less pretentious than my original name, LadyShadis. >.>

[Traehuert Mada]

HyperHacker & DarkZell666, that's the QWERTY keyboard, the most common for English-based keyboard makers.
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = Backspace
Tab Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] \
CapsLock A S D F G H J K L ; ' Enter
Shift Z X C V B N M , . / Shift
Ctrl WinKey Alt Spacebar Alt Winkey PrintKey Ctrl

(WinKey = Windows Logo key, used to engage the "Start Menu" under Windows)

As for my name, it's meant to be Traeheurt Mada, or the mirror reverse of Adam Trueheart, one of my RPG characters on another forum.

[DarkZell666]

It sounded neat and kind of gothy, way back when I was writing fluffy rpgamer fanfics in high school, and less pretentious than my original name, LadyShadis. >.>

lol, LadyShadis sounds more classy than pretentious ;)

@Mr Trueheart: thx for clarifying ^^


There are quite some neat findings in this thread, some circumstances of literally "discovering" a nickname posted here are very interesting :)

[gameplaya15143]

The numbers originate older than the rest of my name. They have thier roots in pokemon. Simply using my first name and my numbers makes up my first email address.

The first part is derived from 'game player', which is just about all I did (I still love my n64). I guess I thought 'playa' was cooler or something, a friend of mine was talking trash and used the term, so I adopted it for my screen name.

Been with me ever since (~7yrs now I think) :)

[RickB]

RickB
First name second name initial
It was going to be...

"Manchester United are the greatest football team in the UK and we are going to hammer those scouse b*****ds tomorrow"

I felt this though was a little too obvious

[Inventive Software]

Amen brother! :D

Mine came from an imaginary company I "set up" during my days as DIV programmer.

[JohnnyMalaria]

A few years ago, we started calling large US stores by their fake French-sounding version (Wal-Mere, Tar-zjay, Arriss-Titterr) and I became "Johnny Mill-aire" (with a strong French sound). It then became Johnny Malaria.

[HeadBangeR77]

Mine came from the old days in gymnasium (don't ask me about educational system in Poland :p). I used to watch "Headbanger's Ball", a programme on MTV (was fully free via satellite back then) - pure metal music. It was really late at night, right after "Beavis & Butthead" (:D), on Sundays, so I was half a zombie on Mondays at school. Hence "HeadBangeR", and 77 from my year of birth (there's almost always an account "headbanger" on various forums, so I have to add sth').
I usually use it as a login for various things as well. ;)

[Adub]

I have used mine for years now, as I started using Merlin as my profile name for every game I ever played. I was originally interested in the previous holder of that time (still am) so I read books and books about his character.
The number 7 was/is just my favorite number. There are four of them because when I became a member to so many forums, it stuck in my head. "And that is what that is all about."

[foxyshadis]

The number 7 was/is just my favorite number. There are four of them because when I became a member to so many forums, it stuck in my head. "And that is what that is all about."
And here I thought that was some kind of FF7 lucky 7's joke.

[markrb]

Mine took years and years of effort from my tiny brain.

Mark

[migrena]

migrena = migraine in polish, and i'm having those horrible headaches regularly...

because i dont have multiple internet personalities if you happen to see this nickname with this avatar in the depths of internet it will be me for sure :D

[Adub]

And here I thought that was some kind of FF7 lucky 7's joke.

Nope, as per usual, sometimes the best answer is the simplest. I just like the numbers, sorry I wasn't more deep.

Same as migrena above, if you see this nickname or Merlin47777 in the depths of the internet, that is me.

[bob0r]

This is Jedd: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v428/aerischan/avatar/ava-jedd.png

I hate him now but the name already stuck. .......

Yeah, pretty lame.

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

[Shinigami-Sama]

Nope, as per usual, sometimes the best answer is the simplest. I just like the numbers, sorry I wasn't more deep.

Same as migrena above, if you see this nickname or Merlin47777 in the depths of the internet, that is me.

ah the uniqueness of aliases
this one became rather popular with the anime junkies a few years ago. But most of the time if you see mine its me; it's rather obvious if it isn't :D
<.<

[krieger2005]

Krieger is german and is my name. It means "worrior".... When i strarted to use internet in the year 1999 (or something before) i thought to take a number which is in the future. 2000 was too early and so i took 2005.

[castellanos]

Castellanos: I pick this up not because the "Spanish" language, but an argentinian guy called Aaron Castellanos, responsible of bringing the first families, to create one of the first colonies in the country.
Also "castellanos" is the name of a street in my hometown.
Greetings! :D

[kypec]

Mine originates from the primary school times when all the boys were nicknamed according to this formula:
take the first two letters of your surname and append the first two letters of your given name, thus I became kype.
Soon after the c has been appended at the end as to improve the pronunciation and make it more fancy.
BTW it reads like [kipets] in my slovak mother tongue :p

I use this nickname throughout all internet forums and discussion groups as well.

[HyperHacker]

Mine originates from the primary school times when all the boys were nicknamed according to this formula:
take the first two letters of your surname and append the first two letters of your given name, thus I became kype.
Soon after the c has been appended at the end as to improve the pronunciation and make it more fancy.
BTW it reads like [kipets] in my slovak mother tongue :p

I use this nickname throughout all internet forums and discussion groups as well.
Hah, this reminds me of the time I was browsing the school server... their system was last name, first initial, all one word (John Smith would be smithj). You can imagine my reaction when I came to G. Poole's directory... :p

[sillKotscha]

Krieger is german and is my name. It means "worrior"....

are you sure??? :D

worrier = jemand, der sich ständig Sorgen macht

warrior is the complete opposite - I know, just a typo by you but a funny one :)

btw, sill is my moniker since my 4th grade and kotscha is my family name -> sillkotscha ;)

[setarip_old]

@sillKotscha

Forget about your monicker, as I've said before, it's your avatar that's memorable!

As they used to tell my generation when we were kids, "Be careful, you could take an eye out with that thing" ;>}

[Blue_MiSfit]

As for me... it was one of those endless nights back in high school. It must have been 2 or 3 in the morning when the name Blue Misfit came to me out of nowhere. At the time I didn't fit in with everyone else at school, so the Misfit bit seemed apropriate, but the Blue part was random.

At the time I didn't know about the band The Misfits, so that had no factor, despite logic...

I go by Derek in real life BTW :)

~MiSfit

[AHelpingHand]

My nick name is what I'd like to be!

[bob0r]

A Hel Ping Hand?

Wtf is A Helsinki Ping Hand?

[DarkZell666]

... o_O ? ... :D

[sillKotscha]

@sillKotscha

Forget about your monicker, as I've said before, it's your avatar that's memorable!

As they used to tell my generation when we were kids, "Be careful, you could take an eye out with that thing" ;>}

:p

yeah... if someone (me) doesn't get attention because of technical knowledge at least people will memorize me because of my funky avatar :)



since you deny any PM conversation I will ask you here...

why do you insist on using blue as a colour for your answers and why do you have the urgent need of stressing things out in claret bold?? Is there some special hidden easter egg behind that logic or any realistic reason?? I believe answering the way you do takes up some time even though you must be well trained by now :D

[setarip_old]

@sillKotschawhy do you insist on using blue as a colour for your answers and why do you have the urgent need of stressing things out in claret bold??I choose to use those colors and formats to increase the possibility that what I make an effort to post will be read in the same manner as it would be heard if I was talking, rather than typing ;>}

[DarkZell666]

@sillKotschaI choose to use those colors and formats to increase the possibility that what I make an effort to post will be read in the same manner as it would be heard if I was talking, rather than typing ;>}

So you talk blue and insist bold brown IRL then ?

... only kidding of course ;) Not a bad idea, but if everyone were to write with funky colors, the forum would be classified "abstract art" xD

[Rockas]

Well... I use mine since I was 12 or 13 years old... o long, long time ago.
Rocky IV was released... Somebody started calling me "Rocas" - the closest Portuguese word... adding a "k" seemed cool... "there was no internet" at that time and I pretty much thought it was unique... too late for change it now :D

At least if I search for in in Google... the first that appears is me :p
:stupid:

[froggy1]

I know you gonna laugh like crazy but I chose my nick because of something I can do really good. And that is, make the exact sound a frog makes with my mouth. You really can't hear the difference between a real frog and me doing a frog with my mouth LOL.

[Kurtnoise]

a recording sample could be great...;)

mine's :

Kurt <-> Kurt Cobain
+
noise <-> coz I like noises (especially from electric guitars :)...not from videos). In fact, it's an excerpt from "One Trip, One Noise" (a song from a famous french rock band : Noir Désir)
+
13 <-> the famous magic number ? not at all...

[SvT]

When I joined this forum I didn't know I would still be checking it after 3 years. I didn't really think about my nick.

I just took my initials........ So now you know !

Greetings !

[DarkZell666]

13 <-> the famous magic number ? not at all...Talking about froggies (lol), you need to be a froggy to know where that 13 comes from : Un-trois représente ;)

@froggy1 : for real, I'd like a recording too, that's gotta be hot :cool:

[mr soft]

My password sucks even more than my nickname.

I did ten years in London , and fell in love with trembore mints
and that big white fluffy mr soft , the songs pretty cool too.

Ps ladyshadis gave me a giggle, sounds like a lipstick.

:)

[froggy1]

Talking about froggies (lol), you need to be a froggy to know where that 13 comes from : Un-trois représente ;)

@froggy1 : for real, I'd like a recording too, that's gotta be hot :cool:

I'll get my old micro here, dunno if the sound will be any good though

[Dr.Khron]

Well, mines a RL nickname that goes back to my undergrad years in college...

Back then, "Khronic" or "Chronic" was a common name for Kind Bud, something I had an unusally good supply of.

And, I made "house calls".

[Tagert]

Heard it from that superb comedy movie Blazing Saddles,
and it sounded good when pronounced so I took it :p

[tom942]

About ten years ago (and nowdays), I always have used "Tom--" as nick, but when I started to get regged in the forums, several of them, didn´t admit this simbol "--".

Then, one day signing up for email account in Yahoo, a robot suggested this one..., and this the story :).

The bad thing of this nick is that very easy to spam :(.

BTW, I'll try any of the methods described here to create a new one :D.

Greets,

Tom

[Atak_Snajpera]

Atak_Snajpera means Sniper's atack. I started to use it when I was playing in high school in Quake2 with my friends. I was killing (in game) everybody with RailGun without problems (on the ground ,in air doesn't matter) So my angry friends started to call me Atak Snajpera. Now instead of Quake I play a lot in Battlefield2
http://bf2s.com/player/68067575/

[Sharktooth]

uhm... i dont remember... but looking at my own avatar it must have something in relation.