Question Username origins

[mojoey]

After seeing different usernames, from the normal to the just plain weird, ive decided to make a username origin thread. What inspired your username? For instance mine was inspired by a Shakey's Pizza comercial. :lol: its a very long story

 

[TMac3000]

My middle name is Thomas, my last name is one of those Mc names, and the 3000 just sounds cool

 

[Rtyh-12]

Heh, long story...

A long, long time ago, waaaaaay back (OK, several years ago) I needed a username for Club Penguin (yea, I know ) and my Dad pressed some random letters on the keyboard and deleted the last ones. The remaining ones were (you probably guessed it) rtyh. The 12 came later, I needed a username for something Lego related, but Rtyh was already taken, so I wrote my age. I still stick to it.

 

[Urwumpe]

Longer story. Back then when the Internet was so fast that you could hear the packets chat while having a smoke on the modem and I got my first Internet access, I needed a user name for the AOL Chat, and all the good names had been gone and I hated having something like Dennis78 or so... So I typed in frustration what I thought ("Urwumpe!" or the local lower Saxon slang expression for "Totally irrelevant!") and suddenly I was in the chat and got my once-in-a-lifetime user name.

 

[n122vu]

Shortly after getting married, I was thinking about a career in aviation. A junior college not far from where we live has an aviation program, and my wife and I attended the Open House they held during the summer. We took a flight in one of their single-engine training planes at the time, a Grumman-American Tiger. Our pilot told us "We're going up in number 22." Of course, the full tail number of the plane was N122VU. Shortly after that, I needed a username for Flightsim.com. It took me all of 5 seconds to settle on the tail number of the trainer we flew in. I've used it on many sites ever since.

The college has since retired their fleet of Tigers and sold them to the public. N122VU is now registered privately, I believe to someone in Chicago, Ill.

 

[diogom]

Diogo, my first name. M, first letter in my last name.

 

[C3PO]

Well.... DUH! :rofl:

Some (younger) people don't remember that the original C3PO hated space flight, so the irony is a bit lost on them.

 

[kevin580]

Easy here:

Kevin, my first name, 580(99) my postcode here. I am using it almost everywhere, when not, then mostly kevin58099, kevin or kevin[something cool]. xD

 

[orb]

Mine isn't related to Orbiter at all, as I created it in 2001, so before I have found Orbiter. I was looking for the shortest possible user name for e-mail at free e-mail provider, which wasn't already in use and means something, and is cool.

 

[Spacethingy]

Excellent thread idea!

Well... Erm...

I think my Loch Ness Monster avatar actually came first.

I'm not good at finishing my sentences. You know, you're talking about that... errrrr... thingy that you saw...

 

[garyw]

mine is very exciting and was created after much thought.

No, not really, it's my name. :lol:

 

[ky]

My Username is the first two letters of my name.Some of my friends call me Ky,so I just decided to use it as my orbiter username because it's short and easy to remember than Kymani(Trust me, I have heard many different pronounciations and different ways to spell my name).

 

[fireballs619]

A few years ago, my brother's friend let us borrow Halo CE, and we needed a name for the online portion of the game. The fireballs comes from the mind of the friend (I have NO clue how he thought of it), and the 619 came from our street address. We have used it ever since, but it's mainly been me using it. If you search fireballs619 on google, 90% of the accounts are something either my brother or I have made.

 

[HarvesteR]

Mine is a somewhat long-ish story:

Back in the day I used to share nicknames with Moach, my brother... Since we shared the 'puter, it was easier to just use a single nickname so we wouldn't need to be constantly logging in and out... So I used to be Moach (which is a word we made up... but that's a story for him to tell)

Anyways, We used to have this heavy metal band, which back then was called "Bad Harvest"... So whenever I needed an alias for some online thing, I would use "TheHarvesteR"...

After I moved out and got my own computer, I took on "TheHarvesteR", and over time it became just "HarvesteR" (I'm still TheHarvesteR when HarvesteR is unavailable)...

Whenever both are unavailable, I tend to go with my alter-ego, PsykomantaBrain.

Cheers

 

[Moach]

hmmm, i used to go by "Raynor" (inspired by a StarCraft character) back in the day...

one day, while making a custom mission for Operation Flashpoint - i cobbled up "Mole" and "Roach", into a unexpectedly funny-sounding possible character name, somewhat derived from "the Mole" (the spy-warlord kid from South Park movie)...

then when me and my brother HarvesteR (which has already told his story) went about modelling the "737 experience" for FS2004, we dredged up that name to use for posting topics under a single SimViation.com account...

eventually, i took over our shared identifier and he went with HarvesteR from then on...

more recently, i found i needed an avatar for registering to the dxstudio dev forums.... i googled "Moach" and hit "images"... that's what i got :rofl:

 

[Fizyk]

Long time ago, in the elementary school, I started being interested in physics. My friends began calling me a physicist (that's what "fizyk" means in Polish) and it became my nickname. So, when I needed a nickname for the internet, it was the first thing that came to my mind, since it was already my nickname.

And now I'm becoming a physicist for real, because physics is what I'm studying

 

[iamwearingpants]

I didn't want to put my main name flyingfender, I forget why, so I brainstormed, looked at my pants, and noticed I was wearing pants. (What a surprise!) So then I randomly put iamwearingpants into the box and used it.

I have no clue why I used it, but it fits.

 

[IronRain]

Some years ago I needed a new username because my old one was Denkende, what literally means Thinking.. (that was my very first username)

Sooo I decided that it was time to grow up and choose a better name. In most FPS games I always choose Light Machine Gun class guns. My friends told me that they like how I always make a rain of bullets when we approach the enemies. Something like a rain of iron they said. And then I knew my new username

 

[ky]

My first username for just about everything was game.It then evolved to game360 and now is gameky.

 

[N_Molson]

I went in Canada for several months. Izack can probably explain you the rest of the story :lol: