This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
Birch, please.
I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.
Resol - can mean a number of different things. It’s the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. It’s also the word “loser” spelled backwards. It’s two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.
van - the Dutch word meaning “of” or “from”. Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being “von”, which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.
Lemmy - isn’t it obvious? It’s this wonderful website.
Put them together, and you get “Resol van Lemmy”. It sounds pretty nice, don’t you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.
CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan’s best. Violà.
I opened a physical dictionary to a random page and pointed to a word without looking.
First attempt was diarrhea
I was eating something when I made the account. Make a wild guess what it might have been.
I like captain Picard.
All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.
I was promoted from the rank of Commander.
My husband’s nickname for me. I was born in the holler in Appalachia and am a woodsy pixie. It stuck and is now my trail name.
My poochie was clinically depressed
Bitwarden username generator 👍
Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.
TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.
Holy shit you’re the guy. Keep being based.
Are you friends with count zero :-) ?
Another computer error.
Aw man, a great William Gibson reference.
Hah no never heard of them :D
From Willian Gibsons (the guy who coined ‘Cyberspace’) book Count Zero, if you put zero on the interrupt on address zero you’ll just get stuck in an neverending cycle.
And it was the chosen nick of Bobby in the book.
Ah right, that did sound familiar been decades since I read that book 😅
I know this, but I still always read it as “bulldozer” for some reason.
Way more years ago than I would like to admit, when I was in my teens, I learned to play a Fender Mexican Stratocaster. It became my name on my BBS, and has stuck ever since.
Most people think it has to do with FM radio.
Edit: Also, this question has managed to get replies from almost all of the prolific participators on Lemmy. Nice.
Do you play the Steely Dan classic FM on your FMstrat?
I really liked Weird Al when I was like 12. Still do.
