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I grew up in a very rural area of the southern U.S. back in the 80s. The internet wasn't quite a thing yet, so my window to the world outside my small town was our mailbox, located at Rural Route Box 464. I had pen pal letters, catalogs, magazines and comic books delivered in the mail and it was pure joy to run down the dusty road and check for something new every day.
The internet became my new window to the world, so it just seemed natural to use "Box464" as my address. Even got the domain!
Everyone have super random username but this warm my heart π
6 years ago someone submitted a contact us form with the name Fuckwit McBumcrumble at work and we found it really funny.
Biology teacher in HS mentioned off-hand that apparently chickens can climb trees. I searched for images online, thought they were funny, and made it my handle.
I was a DJ in the 90ies and needed a DJ name. I was looking for one and when I was on my way to Ber
lin for the Love Parade by train - already half drunk. And the we stopped in the city Jena, in the part Paradies, so the sign Spain "Jena Paradies" and I thought it was the perfect name for me as a DJ.
Then I added another e and dropped the "last name" part and here we are with "Jeena"
Well, let me tell you a little story
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat ideaβ¦
When ICQ was new, I met a girl online that went by Tina. Cute blonde with a gap in her front teeth. She and I would video chat all day while I worked. Many NSFW video chats from her side.
She named me Tina's Horny Boyfriend. And I lived in Texas.
Sadly, we never met and I lost track of her.
We chat online for like 2 hours a day, so I guess you can say things are getting pretty serious.
RAWRGWAWGGR
Well said, fur ball.
Son!?
I had a screensaver in the late 90's that made random but grammatically correct sentences. One sentence said "I once was a vinyl wombat"
We are a small clique of kobolds who share a Lemmy account in real life. It seemed appropriate.
24 years ago my dad asked me what I wanted my username to be and I was struggling and he said βhurry up or Iβll pick something silly like prettybunnysβ and type it in and I said βokβ.
I like sea otters. I've spotted them in the water once or twice
My name's Hiram. I was born in Chihuahua, and raised in Chicago.
Both are home, and both start with "Chi."
Well....
Edit: seems my gif doesn't load?
Edit2:Thanks!
You need an exclamation point at the front, and no spaces in the brackets. Like this:
Back when chatrooms were a thing, me as an edgy teenager, wanted something that I thought made me appear dark and mysterious so I chose Der teufel (the devil) as my handle. Most people couldn't read it properly and called me Truffle instead and I embraced it happily.
Came to me in a dream
I made an account
For some reason, it wasn't taken. Some people are just lucky, I guess.
I was a bookish child and my mother used to take me to the local library weekly. On the way to the children's section I had to pass the large print shelf. There was always this one hardback book there, The Spitting Image. It had a bizarre looking gargoyle on the cover and I used to look away so I wouldn't have nightmares about it, but peek at it between my fingers. Every week for years the spitting image would watch me run past it to the Tintin books. Eventually I lost my fear and I could look it straight in the face. It was a goofy thing, nothing like as sinister as I first thought.
Once upon a time the world was a magical place and I used to invent my own rituals as protection.
Because breakfast is the most important meal.
Character in the world I made up when I was a kid
My name is kostas, I was 6 years old, and I didn't know how super was spelled.
20 years I wear that spelling mistake as a badge of honour!
Because Reddit is run by morons.
Apathy during the reddit drama
I casted spells
It was random username that Crunchyroll generated for me. I liked the absurdity of it.
When I got to the username prompt Sagat's voice jumped into my head. While I enjoyed SF2 way back in the day I haven't played in probably 25 years, so I'm not exactly sure why I thought of it.
(pic is AI generated, close enough)
I change usernames every couple years. Betch is just something a couple of my friends started calling me a while ago. It basically became my name until I found something I liked to replace my deadname and it also became my new online identity.
All the other names I use were taken =]
Trans, wasn't ready to use my new name IRL, or come out to anybody, so I took the word "Somber" and shoved a Y in it because it makes it really similar to my chosen name, so I could feel like I was being called my preferred name every time somebody said it.
Now that I'm this far into my transition it's nothing but a relic, but I like the username anyway.
