usernames?

[ozfiz]

ive notice that using the net everyone has perfered user names, most are pretty interesting.
i was just wondering for the people on this forum, how u got ur user name and if there are any stories behind them???

mine for example is just reverse alphabet of my real name, like a=z, b=y, c=x - so on and so on.
see if u get my name :P

[Loüßëãr]

see if u get my name
Hi Laura!!! ;) :P B)
My nickname is easy, My first name is Louise & I collect dolls & BEARS!! Plus it was the first decent nickname i came up with for Messenger :P :P :wahah:

[Anapan]

I came up with mine around 1997 when I used to talk on ICQ alot. During the summer my friends and I were changing our nicknames daily (can't really remember why). One night I'd stayed up for 4 days straight(insomnia) and came up with that one at random while I was hallucinating a little from lack of sleep. I decided to stick with it because while changing nicknames I was having great difficulty finding one that was unique (all the good ones were already taken).
Not a particularly good story I'll admit, so here's some stuff I found out about the nickname when I looked it up on soime search engines:
It's the english translation of the word for a Buddhist fasting ritual. It's also very close the the name of an anime character "Anpan Man".
Anpan is a japanese snack - "an" is sweet bean paste, and "pan" is the Japanese word for bread.
Anpan Man's head is made of bread filled with sweet bean paste. He goes around rescuing animals and feeding them his delicious head while flying them to safety... :wacko:
http://www3.telus.net/anapan8/eatface.gif
Oh, and I hear there's more episodes of Anpan Man than any other animated show ever made.

[otaku]

im a a anime manga fan fom astroboy to zero
i whas insteste in anime when i whas 5 and now im 13

i am now a manga freak and otaku=anime manga fan
it whas a nehatieve world in japan in the 80 st
because ther whas a mudrer that kild a little giglh
and he whas olso a otaku and manga other otaku were mad because ther blamed tham bu now 20 years latheris yust otaku yust means fan boy

[DrFrag]

I came up with mine in late 1999 at a private LAN game where we were trying out the Quake 3 beta. It was one of the first multiplayer games I played where you had to actually choose a name, so I chose DrFrag (a frag is when you kill someone in the game).
The reason there is no space is in early multiplayer games they didn't allow spaces in user names.

I have since heard of a Dr Frag in New Zealand, and another one in Italy who makes maps for Unreal Tournament. I think there's also a Dr Frag in USA and another in Germany, but I'm not sure. And I don't know who was first. :) Somone has taken drfrag@hotmail.com, but I got myself doctorfrag@hotmail.com, which isn't too bad. And the first four Google matches on my name are me. :D

Before DrFrag I used Guido Anchovey (sic) who was a character in Samurai Pizza Cats. I mostly used that in the BBS door game Legend of the Red Dragon. Before that, in the early days of PC demo coding, I was Snarl of Legion. Probably named after the Dinobot from Transformers.

[Dragonrider1227]

I just thought Dragonrider sounded cool.

[Danny]

:unsure:
I am Danny because its my name.

[Speedy]

Guido Anchovy, the suave blue cat ^_^

Speedy is the lead cat and I consider myself a fast guy most of the time, plus I'm a die hard SPC fan, so why not name myslef after y fave character.

Speedy Cerviche

[Burrita]

I used to use the nickname: x_p0se for years, just recently i changed it to Burrita.

Burrita means female donkey in spanish, and also stubborn which i am.. and being latin...
i thought it suit me..


but i use this avatar everywhere... to let people know that i'm obessed with astroboy.. yeah!

[jeffbert]

It's also very close the the name of an anime character "Anpan Man".

I read about this character in Manga Jin's Learn Japanese through comics! :D

I had worked in the electronics field for a few years, during which time, Scott Adams created the Dilbert character & comic. I really hate making up stuff, because I fear it will suck and people will laugh at me. So, as among the supporting characters were catbert, ratbert, & dogbert, I figured jeffbert would not merit too much criticism. :D

When I was a kid, we had really a tough time naming our GI Joes. This was way before they had names or personalities. Since then, I took several hours trying to come up with a email name that would not stink!

:P

I came up with mine in late 1999 at a private LAN game where we were trying out the Quake 3 beta. It was one of the first multiplayer games I played where you had to actually choose a name, so I chose DrFrag (a frag is when you kill someone in the game).

I started my love of PCs with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and several other 3D immersion maze games. Since then, they have become much more complex, and the idea of playing with only one hand, as I do, was too frustrating.

I remember a Wolfenstein game editor that I downloaded. It was fun! I could build my own mazes, put the bad guys anywhere I wanted, in any number. But the Bosses were weird. Unlike all the others, they would not move at all, unless you put them behind doors, and opened them! :P :P You could take the chain gun and spay them until they died (took about 100 rounds), and they would just stand there, unless you opened the door! I tink I killed them with the knife at least once, it took about 500 stabs, though. I had no interest finding out how many punches it would take!

Itried to use a similar Door game editor, but could not create games from scratch, the best I could do was edit existing mazes, usually puting the Cyber Demon in more than one place. :wahah: :wahah:

[Spiffy Knight]

Well I used to use Convoy Avenger (Completly original I love myself for that) Of course I am lying though! I used to have borders in my house, and one that was here was a hardcore Transformers toys collector (he still is) and he ordered some Toys from Japan, and the original Supped up Optimus Prime from Japan was called Super Fire Convoy. At this time I wasn't very computer literate, so that's what we were trying to come up with, an email address for me. So we got the Convoy from the Transformer, and added Avenger to it.. cause it's cool I guess? (He really thought it up). So I used that for a good period of my Computer days (I still do occasionally). Now Spiffy Knight is a different story. My friends and I often play Super Smash Bros. Melee, and I used Link, and my friend uses Marth or Roy. And he's always change their clothes to the brightly colored ones (gold and silver) and he was like "look! I'm a Spiffy Knight yo!" haha and I was all like "Kill the Spiffy Knight!" Because I didn't have the same respect for them then as I do now. Anywho, we call ourselves Spiffy like daily though.. cause you know, the word Spiffy is Spiffilicious! hahaha, and it's fin making new adjectives out of it.

[jeffbert]

There was acartoon during the mid seventies called The Oddball Couple with a cat (Spiffy) and dog (Fleabag) in the roles similar to Felix Unger and Oscar Madison of The Odd Couple. The voice actor for Spiffy had a really annoying way of saying 'yes', he elongated the word Real Player audio of Frank Nelson on the Jack Benny Show (http://www.dannythestreet.com/franknelson/walker.ram) Anyway, regardless of what role he played Frank Nelson, used this distinctive 'yes' along with several other funny pronounciations. :lol:

[masaki22]

um well masaki is my name lol

[DrFrag]

Originally posted by jeffbert@Feb 3 2004, 05:24 AM
I started my love of PCs with Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and several other 3D immersion maze games. Since then, they have become much more complex, and the idea of playing with only one hand, as I do, was too frustrating.
I've often thought about playing computer games if I only had the use of one hand. In the early days of gaming I used to freak out my friends by playing driving games with only one hand on the numeric keypad. Seemed perfectly normal to me. But these days the typical FPS requires a hand for mouselook with two buttons and the scrollwheel, plus another hand on the keyboard. Counter-Strike, for example, makes use of at least 20 keys plus the mouse. That's pretty messy.

I also had a go at mapping. I didn't get into Wolf3D mapping much, apart from adding more blood to all the graphics. I did a lot of mapping with Doom and it was really hard. There were no tutorials at the time and I even ended up writing one of the first. BSP compilers were rare too so it was hard to move walls around (as opposed to adding objects, which doesn't require any new vertex calculations). Ten years later and I've only just got in to it again. It's so much easier now and there's a lot of support and you can do so much more stuff. I've just finished my first Counter-Strike map beta, de_petra (http://afk.sagamers.com/de_petra.zip).

It's weird though, back in the old days people didn't use nicknames because BBS registrations required real names for payments. No one worried about stalkers or security much. Unless you were on the Internet, but this was before the WWW.

[Strange Wings]

My former name was Louis'74, however I've grown tired of that name sort of.
I recently let it change to 'Strange Wings', according to a Savatage (http://www.savatage.com/) song.
No special meaning, it just sounds cooler IMO.


right click, save target as (http://music.allofmp3.com/m3ulist.m3u?group=1554&album=3)

[Sparx]

can anyone guess where my name came form

[astro_mcfly]

As some of you might know, my name comes from both Astro's name & Marty Mcfly from Back to the Future. I used to know pretty much everything about those films, and was on the message boards all the time at BTTF.com . Well, after I lost my dvds I may have given up. I came here back in January 2005 and I was at a loss for names so I picked astro_mcfly.
My email addresses are strange like that also, but not mixed. I have three, my pepsifree1985 (that's my yahoo) , astrogirl1218, and tobiotenma...
I got bored, what else can I say? Oh and I do have a yahoo japan, but I don't use it as of yet. (atomu472003@yahoo.jp I think)

[crazyd2000]

idk, were crazyd came from, but i use it alot

[DrFrag]

can anyone guess where my name came form
I have to admit cheating with Google, but is it from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go?

[Sparx]

I have to admit cheating with Google, but is it from Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go?

nope... nice try though
the name came from a forest called the Sparx forest on a Planet called Delta

if you read my signature it will say it all

when i press on the smiles thay do not come out on the message

[Latu]

This name came to me while my friends and I were playing a game which we called "GameGames". We had made up this game so we could all be whichever character we wanted to be. Instead of standing around all day deciding on what to do we would make up characters or just play as characters from anime and manga. I'm pretty good at just making up names by putting different sounds together, but my friend on the other hand, would draw blanks. I'm not sure what Latu was as a character but I still remember the name. Maybe I'll look on some search engines later.

[Sparx]

cool thats game sounds fun

[Latu]

:p