I think I used my initials and last name for my first AOL account. But my current monicker goes back to 1997 on The Bronze, and I've used some variation of it ever since.
Just call me the computer whisperer.
Willow ,'Lessons'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2011 11:25:07 am PDT #14684 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Fred Pete - Jun 29, 2011 11:26:20 am PDT #14685 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was Fred P. on Table Talk. (Very, very, very briefly.)
In other news, turns out I have a compressed spinal cord. Should be correctable by routine surgery, but I'll probably be off work for a week or two. Hoping this corrects the pain, tingling, and numbness in my left arm and hand.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2011 11:26:33 am PDT #14686 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Other early handles that I don't use at all anymore include dundus (Jamaican for albino) and Xaymaca (indigenous Jamaican word for Jamaica). I think I had AOL handles under both names. Everything else I used ten, fifteen years ago, I still use.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 11:28:25 am PDT #14687 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ouch, Fred!
I have some non-my-name logins floating around now, but it's pretty much the first time I've done that.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2011 11:29:04 am PDT #14688 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My first AOL screennames were all Mulder###, Mulder912 being the one that stayed with me post-AOL.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2011 11:30:34 am PDT #14689 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I probably have ten handles in current use. Wait, now that I think about it, dundus is still active. I use it at AO3. Maybe closer to 15 active, really.
I should probably take lunch. I need a break.
Calli - Jun 29, 2011 11:31:47 am PDT #14690 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm sorry, Fred. I hope the surgery goes well and you heal quickly.
I chose Calligrafiti as an online handle about 10 years ago and never really felt the need for another. Calli's just a nickname of that.
-t - Jun 29, 2011 11:33:20 am PDT #14691 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Ouch, Fred! I hope the surgery is easy on you and does the trick.
Hil R. - Jun 29, 2011 11:37:36 am PDT #14692 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think that all of my online names have been some variation on my actual name. Either my real name, or a nickname, or a version of my name in some other language, and I've used my Hebrew middle name for several things.
Liese S. - Jun 29, 2011 11:38:38 am PDT #14693 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
My stomach is upset. It has been for, like, three days. It does not like camp food, apparently.