Yeah, I used Windows NT for a while in the late 90's and named my user account "root" just for cognitive dissonnace. But then when I'd launch an IRC client, it

Yeah, I used Windows NT for a while in the late 90's and named my user account "root" just for cognitive dissonnace. But then when I'd launch an IRC client, it would put that in my identification string and I'd get kicked off of channels (or whole servers) with the message, "Don't IRC as root."