How'd you pick your nick?

[Doug Nelson]

People on here, most of them anyway, have such fascinating usernames. I was going through my boring phase (lasting from the mid-90s until...well, I'm still in it) when I decided not to use one here. But I'd love to know how you arrived at yours.

[Swampy]

Mine goes waaaaaay back to the '70s and CB radios. I moved a lot as an Army wife and was always on the road so a CB radio came in handy for a woman traving with kid, a dog, hampster and a gold fish. LOL I used the CB handle of "Swamp Witch" (I'd tell truckers I lived in the swamps and I looked like a witch<g>)

Anyway, when I became a netizen in 1983, I frequented the GEnie chat area and used my old CB handle. Well, friends got tired of typing all that and shortened it to "Swampy". Been Swampy ever since.

BTW... my kid used "Son of a Witch" for a long time... LOL

[Frank Lopes]

Originally Posted by Swampy

I frequented the GEnie

Holy smoke... that brings back memories LoL

Did you use Aladdin to connect to it?

[lurch]

Since I suffered a cerebellar stroke in 2000, lurch just sorta came naturally.

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[Kraellin]

i didnt know you were on GEnie, dee dee. boy, those were the days. CIS and GEnie, lol, forerunners of the internet that died at the inception of the internet. those were the two places i used to go for online, multiplayer gaming. island of kesmai, air warrior and dragon's gate. island of kesmai is where i thought up my last name of my nick.

you see, my full nick is Kraellin Celebnoli. the Celebnoli comes from Tolkien's vocabulary. it means literally, silver knowledge or more loosely, sacred lore.

and 'Kraellin' comes from a name i made up while writing and designing an online game i owned. it was a MUD, a (M)ulti (U)ser (D)ungeon. in my game there was a region of desert and rock inhabited by a nomadic, trading, thieves, assassins type people. i named them 'the Kraellin'. it has no particular meaning i know of. i just liked the name and thought it fit those people

so, Kraellin Celebnoli, thief of the sacred lore. or, if you want to put a more benevolent spin on it, trader of sacred lore or follower of sacred lore. i'll let you decide

[jannetie]

Mine is the name my older cousin called me when I was born. She couldn't pronounce Janice. We were surprised many years later to learn that with our Dutch ancestry, Jannetie would be my name exactly! And no one else seems to have it, anywhere - lol.

Originally Posted by Doug Nelson

People on here, most of them anyway, have such fascinating usernames. I was going through my boring phase (lasting from the mid-90s until...well, I'm still in it) when I decided not to use one here. But I'd love to know how you arrived at yours.

[lkroll]

Cool info and background. Wish I were as creative as you are, but alas, I'm not. Wish I would have stuck with my usual handle (lylejk), but for whatever reason, I changed it to lkroll here. Together, you now know my name.

[Swampy]

Craig, I was the forum manager of the Macintosh Rountable (aka forum) on GEnie for a number of years. John, my SO, and I meet in the GEnie chat room in 1987!! Imagine the difficulty of explaining to my friends here in the swamps how I met this guy on my computer. They didn't understand email in those days, let alone chat rooms. LOLOLOL

[Frank Lopes]

oK .... since we are reminiscing ...

anyone here used prodidgy?

What about BBS systems?

[lurch]

I used to use Prodigy, on my first computer. It was an Apple II+, with a whole 64K of memory, and a ssslllooowww dialup connection (can we say 300 baud?). Used to start a load of laundry or make a cup of coffee while waiting for a page to load. But I could buy (a few) gifts on line with it.

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[Paul Sabatino]

its my name. lol

[saby]

Originally Posted by Swampy

...when I became a netizen in 1983,
...

now I can feel the difference between the east and the west 1st when I've heared about computer was '85 (sinclair zx81 1K) when I've seen it was '87 (C64 4K)

my nick is from my name, what is Szabolcs

[palms]

Interesting topic this one
Swampy i presumed was because of the area lived in
Kraellin i have often wondered about, and thought it was from a book like Lord of the Ring or a Terry Pratchett type novel
lkroll I never quite get if it is a L or a I first so will now try Lyle
Saby please don't take this the wrong way but i could pronounce Saby but not your proper name so i will stick with your nickname

Mine is just that a family nickname taken from our surname, call Palms out round here and you would get 4+ replies

Has anybody misread names ? I read Cameraken as one word for ages pronounced cam era ken (like Cameron) then realised it was Camera Ken Duh

Palms

[Cameraken]

Hi

Has anybody misread names? I read Cameraken as one word for ages pronounced cam era ken (like Cameron) then realised it was Camera Ken Duh

I should have used a capitol 'K'

I used to be a member of a motorcycle group. There were two members called Ken. So, to avoid confusion, I got nicknamed Camera-Ken 'cus I sell and repair cameras. The name stuck and now everyone calls me CameraKen.

Ken.

[saby]

Originally Posted by palms1

...Saby please don't take this the wrong way but i could pronounce Saby but not your proper name so i will stick with your nickname...

It's ok Palms, My first English teacher called me Sam because my name -especially the last to letters (CS) what is actually one in Hungarian- couldn't pronounced in English. If U want to tell it, Sub_Olch sounds the colsest to it.

[Britsdad]

Here's my story
My son plays games on the internet, and although he's moved onto Quake wars ect now, he used to play Jedi knight muti player, and his "nick" was Flyingbrit...I couldn't resist when he was at school, and I was on the right shift I used to play as either "oldfart" or "britsdad" and it's sort of stuck (this was in the days of 56k)
John

[cardmnal]

Ever since I was about 6 years old I have collected sports cards. Mostly baseball but some football and basketball as well. I used to participate in a lot of sports memorabilia and card shows. Cardmn is just a truncated version of "card man" which I was called because I had so many sports cards (I still have thousands upon thousands). Al is just short for Alan. Put them together and you get cardmnal

[JMB]

João Marcos Britto

(John Mark in english, I guess...O.o)

[Dave.Cox]

Mine's just my email address set up by a previous employer. It's so easy to remember that I have been using it ever since. And yes, I remember prodigy. It was bought out by SWBT, who changed to SBC, and is now AT&T. I still have my prodigy account and email address, even though it is owned by AT&T.

[Kraellin]

Kraellin i have often wondered about, and thought it was from a book like Lord of the Ring or a Terry Pratchett type novel

you were very close

and dee dee, now that you've said it again, i think i remember you telling me that once before. so, we were in the same building, just not the same rooms

lots of interesting derivations here