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I've been using the same username for 30+ years. It was the default username on the very first shell service I signed up for. Occasionally I get to a service
by jedberg 4y ago
I've been using the same username for 30+ years. It was the default username on the very first shell service I signed up for.
Occasionally I get to a service where someone already has it (either my cousin or someone in Sweden). Then I just add 12 to it, because the first time it happened (on AOL) I had to get to 12 before it was unique.
Very occasionally that's taken too, so then I have to get creative, like realjedberg or something like that.
But at this point it's become sort of a brand for me.
And no, I've never had another throwaway login or anything like that. I had a few tester accounts on reddit but never used them for anything other than testing.