Where did your /nick come from?

[Sam Shazaam]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Shazaam was something said whenever something cool happened. It was used a lot by Captain Marvel and Gomer Pyle. When I tried to sign into boards using it some one else already had that name. Sam rhymed, sort of, and gave it a certain ring. After that, all I needed was an avatar that had a hat.

[Ne0nRa1n]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I hope no one minds that I revive this thread. I know it is old, but I thought it was cute and I am so, so bored today.

The story of my nick is more silly stupid than anything else. I had another nickname that I was using for a long time, and someone kept stealing it back in the days that I used to live on IRC. I knew I had to come up with something original so that crap stopped happening.

I lived with my boyfriend at the time, and he said - to truly be truly alpha geek cool you have to have a nickname from William Gibson. I had already read Necromancer but really couldn't get into his work. (I know, I know. Blasphemy, but I find his female characters very one dimensional.)

So, I picked up a hardcover version of Idoru that he had and read the dustcover flap and in the first few sentence it said something of the like...'blah, blah, blah and it came down like neonrain.'

Because I am so lazy, I slammed the book shut and said, "That's it."

Since elite speak was so popular at the time, (I am showing my age right now, aren't I?) and I found the whole thing kind of ridiculous I put the 0 and 1 in my name because I knew some moron would try to correct me that I didn't know the fine art of geek speak and I would be able to look all cocky when I threw my head back with a smile and be able to say, "It's binary baby."

(In case you are wondering, it worked. I had a lot of people try to correct me on my elite-speak-ese that year and made a lot of people blush. To this day, I still find it fun!)

[zoasterboy]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

That was the best response to this post ever.


You should write a blog.

[tr1gger65RUS]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Since elite speak was so popular at the time, (I am showing my age right now, aren't I?) and I found the whole thing kind of ridiculous I put the 0 and 1 in my name because I knew some moron would try to correct me that I didn't know the fine art of geek speak and I would be able to look all cocky when I threw my head back with a smile and be able to say, "It's binary baby."

i like this post =)

the story of "tr1gger65RUS" doesn't possess intellectual features. elitespeaking mode is still on in the territory called "ru_net", "trigger" can be described as blaiming myself in some kind of temporary stupidity feature like "first push then think" or something like that, 65rus marks my native region as its done on number plates of 4wheel hardware )

[DiaBack]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

DiaBack = Diam<>ndback

[goathead]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

My nick has changed over the years. My first nick was given to me by my cadre within the New York public school system. Early learning, exploration and exploitation of the first prosumer wave of PC's and subsequent close calls with disaster showed me that I needed to focus my energy elsewhere or I'd end up in trouble with someone. So during those years of being forbidden to modem, or use my offline storate (ooo tape), I concentrated on rocking. Years passed and I started needing more than just the loud noise of the tube stacks. A wise companion turned me onto the DC community around the time of ~DC5 and after a few years of hovering, I started rekindling my interest. About that same time I had been working more and more with my band and started using Goathead, my side project's name, as my nick for various online dealings.

So if at Con you see Goathead stickers or you happen to see some slob in a goathead shirt, its because of the band affiliation and access to swag. If you do see said slob and we haven't met, please introduce yourself, I enjoy meeting people.

/returning to hive

-GH

[kraa26]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

Been awhile since I have posted out here.

Mine came from back when I was playing Werewolf... I picked Kraa as a name for a character.. then people I knew just started calling me that.. 26.. from a magazine I use to read.. some of you might know it. 2600 :)

Kraa

[liberator]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

It's a multi entendre with no deep mystery.

First, I'm a Libertarian. Liberty is something that I'm committed to. As part of that I support the Free Software Foundation. It also drives my interest in encryption, anonymizing tools, and other technologies that enhance liberation.

Second, about a thousand years ago, when I was in what was then called "Junior High School", "liberation" was a euphemism for "stealing". These days I work in an industry which aims to prevent stealing.

Third, I'm really in to aircraft and general aerospace issues. The B-24 Liberator is not a particular favorite of mine, but it fit as an avatar for the nick. I nearly created a nick along the lines of "Bone" so that I could use the uber great looking B1B as an avatar (btw - nice pics of the bone's bomb bay, ASTCell).

I am well known under a different nick in a different area of interest, which is not discussed much in the Defcon world.

[steampunk]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

A friend of mine received a free copy of the Steampunk comic book from Cliffhanger when he bought some novelty item online. I went to his place for a LAN party one evening and discovered it sitting in the corner, so I picked it up and thumbed through and immediately loved it. He said I could have it. I bought every subsequent issue and eventually adopted the name.

[blauman]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

I changed my nickname afew times. I used to be know by a different nickname that now only some really old and close friends know me by... I changed when a friend got in deep trouble, since at that time he have some Assy. source code from me, that I was brigh enough to had signed with my nickname... after that I used the nickname cientifico for a little while but I changed on 1995 to Blau_man , when someone I used to like, spy on and play pranks Passed away victim of a terrorist attack, My reasons to chose the nickname are a bit complex, but it reminds me of her...as blau= Blue and blue reminds me of the color of the uniform... as much as I prank on her and her Agency, and I played at been at the other side of the law; It hurts me a lot, that day I was online and got disconected. Blauman reminds me, that I was always ln the same side rcgardless of my behaviour.
I keep this name concealed from most of my friends and even my girlfriend at that time, and used another nickname for awhile but Blauman was my "Real " nickname .

[rennen01]

Re: Where did your /nick come from?

You guys have such interesting stories behind your names. Mine is boring. Rennen is the name of a show car team I started, hence the 01 at the end of my name.