Back in like 1997, my user ID for everything online used to be "Crash Bandicoot" (like the video game character), then I used "Crash" for a while, but after getting into the automotive field, that seemed like a bad idea, and a friend just started calling me Bandi.
[The Long Version:] An old friend gave me the name. Back when Al Gore invented the internet and all we had was email to play with, my friends and I would change each other's names in the header-jobber. So sometimes you would get a really nondescript email - sometimes one sentence of nothing or even a single word - which seemed to have no purpose. Until you noticed that the entire point of the message was to let everyone know that now "Liz" is now to be known as "The Tart Queen of Tartopolis," or similar.
I had to come up with a user name for some website (and I'd gotten tired of my original handle or it was already taken or something) so I used what my email thinger was at the time - NotBatman.
I use it everywhere, now. (Incidentally, there's another NotBatman out there - who sent me a spiteful email when I snagged that for a gmail address!)
I'm just glad I wasn't still "17-inch potato."
I'm a "Leave only footprints, take only pornography" kind of guy, myself.
Adventure Pack was a little gang I had in high school. We used to go exploring stuff. Shortened to Adv.Pack to fit as our name in Zelda Ocarina of Time.
I had a dodge spirit (total granny car) in highschool with a turbo engine and a 5 speed... everyone called it a sleeper, so got the name sleeperspirit.
Several years ago, I had a joke with my ex (the first one, not paulpa) about how I was the "Queen of the Vampires" (don't ask where that came from because I forget) and when I joined a few text-based roleplaying sites, I somehow came with with Vampirequeen as my username.
That relationship ended years ago, but I'm still hanging on to the username.
Freeside is a space station shaped like a spindle Bernal sphere built and owned by a reclusive, super-rich corporation family who have become extremely degenerate and insane with a history of cloning themselves, performing incest with their clone children and trying to create a symbiosis with artificial intelligence. It's also a tax-free playground for the super-rich. Read William Gibson's Neuromancer and find out more.
The above concept of Freeside is representative of my concept of American society as a whole. freeside, as my handle, represents the duality of the above and the exact opposite of the above. I operate on the free side, i.e. being free of, or freed from, the mental attitudes of Freeside, or American society, via my mindset, participation in underground culture, mentality about society and my history of deep separation from the normal world, but am also part of it at the same time.
Great thread A-Z! I love the stories of usernames. On an ancient military jacket retrieved from a junked 60's era T-Bird at the bottom of a mine pit, I drew and painted my avatar. My fellow wanna be punks and I named him "Spooky D. Ranged" after many explores, parties and what not. Copied from a Cramps album but I drew and painted every stroke myself. This was circa 1988. Contrary to popular belief my name does not stand for "Small Dicked Retard" but thank you all for asking (over 1,000 questions about this).
If this jacket could talk, It would plead the fifth!
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[last edit 12/14/2013 6:56 AM by SDR69 - edited 1 times] “In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” Ansel Adams
Well, the first real "Ue," I ever did was exploring train tracks, and once while I was trying to balance myself on a rail, my fried commented that I was a trackrunner or something and yeah that's pretty much it.
This. When I explore I feel like breaking from the norm, doing something that's not to be expected from me. The upper and lower case writing is just a play with the alternate meaning of "character" (letter)
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