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Re: "How did you choose your username?"
I like old and "weird" tech and my old nick was often taken.
Feb 16 · 3 months ago
Early on I embraced and constructed Forth-like stack-based systems, and it became the way of life for me, long before there were 'full-stack' engineers, 'stack overflows' and 'substacks'...
It‘s my name (and a 4-letter-word)
I think my user name origin is self-explanatory.
🐦 wasolili [...] · Feb 16 at 21:30:
"waso lili" means "little bird" in toki pona and I think was chosen because I was watching the Futurama episode that featured "Little Bird, Little Bird" by Elizabeth Mitchell when I decided to sign up for the toki pona subreddit.
I got older so MrRobinhood was the natural choice. I added the 5 because its my social security
@MrRobinhood5 - you must be really old to have gotten such a low SSN. Congrats on your health and longevity.
Random word that sounded good as a username
☯️ leoperbo · Feb 16 at 23:01:
I didn't choose it, it chose me... Naaah! First three characters of my name and lastname, two first characters of my mother's lastname... It's my nickname everywhere since 1998.
By the way, at that time, it sounded like "Copernicus" to me, funny and smart, like the dog of the Doc Brown in Back to the Future, big deal.
I'd like to say there was some great meaning or moment attached, but alas I just made it up in the mid-90s and stuck with it ever since, lol
I made it using diceware, a way to choose passwords and usernames using real dice. I changed it to gritty from the original "gritnot" that diceware came up with.
link here
initials plus surname minus vowels. have used a version with vowels but old Unix systems like <8 char usernames
@gritty diceware is a great idea, takes possible bias out of the selection
How did you choose your username?