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Way back before the World Wide Web the dialup world had Bulletin Boards. Everybody wanted you to create an account "handle". I tried to use first initial and
by rzzzwilson 4y ago
Way back before the World Wide Web the dialup world had Bulletin Boards. Everybody wanted you to create an account "handle". I tried to use first initial and family name, but found that my name was common and I had to think of different "handles" for different sites which became a memory problem. So I decided to come up with a unique handle that wouldn't be used by anyone else. I put three Z characters between my initial and family name. I still use that today as my account name here shows.
- senectus1 4y agoyup. I used a theme. I started with Draka (pulled from "The Domination" sm stirling series) that I was reading at the time I first got my own internet connection. then I got tired of that and chose Methuselah for a while.. but I ran into two problems with that.. 1) a lot of username fields didn't support long usernames 2) lazy people shortened it to Meth. which I hated. So I changes it to senectus... all three names have the theme of the long lived. for my kids I chose them handles that fit their initials.. AGSurfer and HGRunner.