This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
I opened a physical dictionary to a random page and pointed to a word without looking.
First attempt was diarrhea
I like captain Picard.
All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.
Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.
TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.
Mine is my password I use for all my accounts. It is very convenient for the frequent times I forget it. I can just come here and there it is.
How many login attempts did you just receive?
I wish there was a way I could tell.
Birch, please.
I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.
My husband’s nickname for me. I was born in the holler in Appalachia and am a woodsy pixie. It stuck and is now my trail name.
Observing the internet from my toilet.
I liked Legos and I liked Pikachu at the time(I was 11 or so? Trying to make a Minecraft account lol)
I don’t think I’ll be able to use this name for anything commercial if I wanted to do that…
I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.
I got onto Reddit back in the day for the electronic music production subreddits. There was an old Daft Punk interview during the big Ultra Music festival days where they made a joke that all EDM music was made by just one guy, Eric David Morris.
Glitch from the original Pokemon Red/Blue.
Resol - can mean a number of different things. It’s the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. It’s also the word “loser” spelled backwards. It’s two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.
van - the Dutch word meaning “of” or “from”. Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being “von”, which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.
Lemmy - isn’t it obvious? It’s this wonderful website.
Put them together, and you get “Resol van Lemmy”. It sounds pretty nice, don’t you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.
CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan’s best. Violà.
I’m a squirrel.
and I’m a tuna!
Caveman eat tuna
Hello!
