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Weekend Open Forum: What was your first screen name?

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  1. Matthew TechSpot Staff Posts: 5,893   +53

    This week we'd like to highlight a thread created by longtime TechSpot member LookinAround. He asks: "There's a lot of interesting and curious looking usernames on TechSpot. The meaning of…

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  2. dustin_ds3000 TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 1,096

    its always been dustin_ds3000
  3. Matthew TechSpot Staff Posts: 5,893   +53

    What does ds3000 mean?
  4. Belladonic Haze was my first and is still used in a lot of places today. First used in 2001, however I've been using the net since 1994! So it took 7 yrs to even get a screen name on anything as it wasn't until 2001 I started using it for more 'social' purposes :)
  5. TomSEA TechSpot Chancellor Posts: 1,964   +134

    Watashi. In the native American Navajo language it means "God." In Japanese it means, "me" or "I" depending on the tense.

    In my MMORPG playing days Japanese players would run up and start talking to me in Japanese and I had no clue as to what they were saying....LOL.
  6. treetops TechSpot Evangelist Posts: 1,385   +12

    hmm probably something I entered in when playing zelda on nes when I was like 5 years old. but uh treetops422 is what I use everywhere. 422 to limit the annoyance of treetops being taken. When I played diablo 1, the earliest online game I ever played I had the names DemonHunter, RedEyedKnight, Sage.
     
  7. Inarius03 TechSpot Member Posts: 25

    Atom_Ant_007
  8. Night Hacker TechSpot Member Posts: 88

    My first was way back before the days of the internet, when the fastest modem speed was 1200 baud, my 1200 baud modem was faster than my friends 300. :) My first screen name I chose was "Hawkeye", I used that for a long time on the various BBSes we had, also ran my own BBS for a while. I later switched it to "Nitehackr" or "Night Hacker", I needed the shorter form in order to fit most places at the time. I am a late night person who has always loved programming (which is what "hacking" originally meant).
  9. dedparrot Newcomer, in training Posts: 67

  10. ramonsterns TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 752   +12

    Ra'mon Sterns from when I played SWG.

    Now I just use ramonsterns among other names.
  11. Outlaw was my irc screen name back in the day of the wild wild net. Early 90's

    Disk Wizard in the 80's BBS scene. Ahhh... the good old days.
  12. Since I got my msn screenname when I was about 10 years old, which is 2001, it's been Lantyem. I'm sure it meant something when I was a kid, but now I have no idea what it stands for, I'm just used to it and I like it.
  13. red1776 Omnipotent Ruler of the Universe Posts: 5,794   +24

    Omnipotent Ruler of the County
  14. motrin TechSpot Enthusiast Posts: 141

    I think mine was fakeptv hha inspired by the simpsons fake 123 st.
  15. RH00D TechSpot Booster Posts: 305   +29

    RH00D, or RH00D2 are the screen names I use online. In the rare case that numbers are not allowed I simply use RHOOD. This is just the first letter of my first name followed by my last name, switching out the Os for 0s. Before that I used Traiz, it does not have any meaning behind it other than the fact that I was trying to think of something that likely wasn't in use all over the net. Before that I used ReadingNayr. The second half of that is my name backwards, I have no idea what the Reading portion of it was supposed to signify, but I only used that back in the days of Xbox Live for the original Xbox. (Halo 2). Before THAT I don't remember my screen names.
  16. lawfer TechSpot Paladin Posts: 1,167   +52

    My very first user name was Blazer, and I created it in 2000 I think; which, at the time, was pretty generic. I don't recall where I got it from though. I only used that one for like a year or two and then switched to my current one: lawfer.

    I took that name from a character from the RPG Valkyrie Profile from the PS1, which, is my favorite JRPG. I liked how, in the game, the father of the character "lawfer" tells his son that he chose that name sort of like to show others he knew his son would bring law and justice to the world. I saw myself always (a mistake for internet newcomers) debating on the internet for what I believed was right, so I stayed with that name on many, many forums, sites, and eventually here. :)
  17. backthewoody
  18. First one I used was ne1uc. Still my favorite one!
  19. I've generally been thelastsurvivor. This was because I always dreamed of playing counterstrike zombie mod, but never got around to it lol.
  20. Arston TechSpot Member Posts: 18

    Arston, because A R S T are the first four letters on the keyboard layout I'm using ? Colemak. Look it up if you ain't familiar. -on is just to complete it as a name :)
    My first username, and still used in a lot of places because I'm using my old accounts, is my name with my birth-year.