Author Topic: Where does your username come from? (Read 12878 times)

2N3055 · « **Reply #50 on:** May 12, 2018, 08:51:41 pm »

Old, slow and dependable , kinda like me :-)
..... Made many PSU-s with it as a kid... good times..

VK5RC · « **Reply #51 on:** May 13, 2018, 12:11:40 am »

Amateur radio callsign, 73

brucehoult · « **Reply #52 on:** May 13, 2018, 01:49:31 am »

I'm so boring. I just use my real name FirstLast on every web site and app. Either I'm the only person in the world with this name, or else the rest of them don't use the internet, because I've never had a problem getting that name. (It's probably the "u" that does it)

Tom45 · « **Reply #53 on:** May 13, 2018, 02:27:00 am »

My name is Tom and I was born in 1945.

When I needed my first computer user name in the 60's a coworker suggested tomc. I used that for several decades until so many people were on the internet that tomc was often taken. So I now use Tom45.

warp_foo · « **Reply #54 on:** May 13, 2018, 03:08:05 am »

warp is from OS/2 Warp...
foo is the first meta-syntactic variable usually listed (foo, bar, baz...)

ucanel · « **Reply #55 on:** May 13, 2018, 04:15:56 am »

What is mine would be?

VEGETA · « **Reply #56 on:** May 13, 2018, 05:10:52 am »

Mine is obvious, from by favorite character in Dragon ball franchise... which matches my personality 100%: VEGETA, the prince of all Sayians.

BBBbbb · « **Reply #57 on:** May 13, 2018, 06:47:15 am »

Quote from: VEGETA on May 13, 2018, 05:10:52 am

Mine is obvious, from by favorite character in Dragon ball franchise... which matches my personality 100%: VEGETA, the prince of all Sayians.

Also a name for a very popular spice/seasoning in ex Yugoslavia. It’s a universal seasoning heavily used in food preparation. Vegeta, the character, is by far better known globally, but not in this region.

My name came long long time ago, as a reaction to all the 1337 names that were popping up when I played multiplayer games (same room times), I just got bored and hit the random button on the keyboard (letter ‘b’). Later I added some formatting (3 upper and 3 lower case) just to add a bit of differentiation.

VEGETA · « **Reply #58 on:** May 13, 2018, 07:36:01 am »

Quote from: BBBbbb on May 13, 2018, 06:47:15 am

Quote from: VEGETA on May 13, 2018, 05:10:52 am
Mine is obvious, from by favorite character in Dragon ball franchise... which matches my personality 100%: VEGETA, the prince of all Sayians.
Also a name for a very popular spice/seasoning in ex Yugoslavia. It’s a universal seasoning heavily used in food preparation. Vegeta, the character, is by far better known globally, but not in this region.

Actually, Akira Toriyama got the names for his show from food: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Origins_of_character_names

and Vegeta is from vegetables.

Lord of nothing · « **Reply #59 on:** May 13, 2018, 07:39:31 am »

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JPortici · « **Reply #60 on:** May 13, 2018, 07:41:43 am »

A tribute, to the most beautiful city i had the pleasure to be and live in for a few years.
Bologna.

And my name is jack

IanMacdonald · « **Reply #61 on:** May 13, 2018, 08:31:40 am »

Ian - Scots version of John, or Yohan.
Mac - son of
Donald - From the gaelic Dòmhnall - Ruler of the (Celtic) World.

bd139 · « **Reply #62 on:** May 13, 2018, 08:55:49 am »

My favourite transistor

Dataforensics · « **Reply #63 on:** May 13, 2018, 09:18:11 am »

Comes from over three decades of examining computers and associated devices as a forensic scientist. Out of touch now though as been retired for nearly six years.

gamalot · « **Reply #64 on:** May 13, 2018, 09:25:57 am »

Game a lot

SG-1 · « **Reply #65 on:** May 13, 2018, 12:14:57 pm »

Quote from: gnavigator1007 on May 11, 2018, 11:01:59 pm

Quote from: SG-1 on May 11, 2018, 10:59:45 pm
It comes from the product that I make my living on, MV Switch Gear.

I just assumed you were a fellow Stargate SG-1 fan.

I do like Star Gate, all of them.

vk6zgo · « **Reply #66 on:** May 13, 2018, 12:42:46 pm »

Obviously enough, my Amateur Radio callsign.

When I started posting on QRZ.com, I naturally used my callsign.
Later, I used it for eHam, so when I started posting here, out of laziness, I stuck with vk6zgo.

I suppose, I could have called myself "Blue Wombat" or something, but it sounded a bit too "CB-ish".

radar_macgyver · « **Reply #67 on:** May 13, 2018, 02:26:29 pm »

A colleague once quipped that if the situation was dire enough, I could turn a wok, coat hanger, microwave oven and AM radio into a radar. He wasn't saying anything about my skills, just commenting on the awful budget situation

Nominal Animal · « **Reply #68 on:** May 13, 2018, 03:00:57 pm »

I was hoping for it to be a MASH reference; a prescient kludge-builder.

German_EE · « **Reply #69 on:** May 13, 2018, 07:18:26 pm »

I'm an Electrical Engineer and I live in Germany, kinda obvious.

kj7e · « **Reply #70 on:** May 13, 2018, 07:32:25 pm »

https://www.qrz.com/lookup/kj7e

Edison · « **Reply #71 on:** May 13, 2018, 08:55:14 pm »

Thomas Alva Edison - the inventor in the field of elektrics, electronics, audio and an electric car.
My name is Tomas and from childhood playing with electrics, electronics, audio, motorcycles and cars.
Nobody told me otherwise than Tomas Alva and from there .......

rsjsouza · « **Reply #72 on:** May 13, 2018, 10:53:49 pm »

The initials of name (Rafael), two family names and the third is spelled in full. Brazilians tend to have quite long names, mostly because the family names of the mother and father are passed on to the descendants (the father's family name is last and we rarely have middle names). I happen to be a somewhat rare case as my dad passed both his father's family names down to us.

Here in the US that becomes a loooooot of fun when dealing with official paperwork or trying to explain to confused droids why there's no middle name...

newbrain · « **Reply #73 on:** May 14, 2018, 07:59:31 am »

The largely underrated NewBrain home computer.
Very handy for tinkerers: dual RS232, the full Z80 bus available from a connector on the back.
Half-compiling BASIC language, quite fast.
All the I/Os were seen from the system SW as streams, and could be treated the same (very Unix-like: open, close read, write).
You could write to (or read from) tape, or the screen or the RS232 with exactly the same code; of course writing to keyboard was pointless.

The SW was extensible, so I added a Centronics interface: just another device number to use in the OPEN call.

The avatar, though, is Oscar from Syberia.

Daixiwen · « **Reply #74 on:** May 14, 2018, 08:27:32 am »

My Chinese name when I started learning Mandarin Chinese at the university.
Dai is not a very common name in China but it was the closest one phonetically.


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