Sometimes you see a forum member’s name and go “what the ?^%$#”
Time to confess, how did you get your name?
Personally, I just can’t wait to hear from Chickenprotector…[/SIZE]
That’s classified.
As one person once deftly put it:
It was also back in the days when most documentation for creating mods spelled the term in all caps, leading me to believe it was the proper way.
I came up with it 'ways back when I was trying to find an alias when I played TFC. It just stuck. I don’t remember HOW I came up with it though. 
When I started playing zombie panic I was absolutely horrible at it, so I called myself rotfodder (zombie food) and the name stuck.
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“Daniel” is my real name. “San” to reference my old screen name, taken from the “Karate Kid”. “Geo” from “Geocities”, my first residence on the Interwebs.
I needed an alias when I started playing the original Stick Arena many years ago in middle school. It came to me as I was playing Pokemon Crystal. The 6 is there because someone else took “Mankyman”.
Mine is pretty much the same idea as JeffMOD’s username except I wasn’t referring to software, I was actually copying directly from Microsoft.
As for how I came up with it, I remember being with my friends at my local internet cafe around 2001, I was playing CS 1.1 and my username was Poor Loser because I absolutely sucked at first person shooters, my friend’s nickname was just “sex”. Later on when we got enough “inspiration” from other players, my friend changed his nickname to “(ASCII gun)Echelon Corp” and I went with Sersoft.Corp because I guess I wasn’t very original at 11 years old, and with only 1 year of English mixed in with some French.
I’m sure I’ve mentioned it in a thread exactly like this before ( /oldfag ) but my name is Max, but that is too short for most places as a username so I added some random junk onto the end…If I recall the ending has something to do the the cartoon ’ Harvey Birdman ’ … or something.
I’ve been using Orpheon since about…2007 I think? Back in the good old days of Perfect World International, I was making my first character and he was supposed to be some wise old swordsman dude, so I intended to name him after a mythological character or something. I think I originally wanted Orpheus or Morpheus cause I thought they were cool names, but they were taken. So I changed Orpheus a bit and came up with Orpheon and found it wasn’t taken, so I used it. I later realized it was the name of the frigate in the beginning of Metroid Prime, which I probably was remembering subconsciously. I liked the name so it stuck. It’s now one of a few names I use online.
Back in 2008 when I first started gaining sentience, I was on this sort of animation-flash-shit-based program called Scratch. And I had a really bad Sonic fancharacter called Shadic (no relation to the characters you’re thinking of). And with him being an OC, he was naturally bullshittingly overpowered. I constantly called him “the master of all”. So naturally I named my scratch account “MasterShadic”. Unfortunately because I was a retard (well, more of one than I am now) I forgot the password, and then just made a whole new account called MasterShadic2 (the old one has long since been deleted, it didn’t have anything on it anyway). Occasionally on a site my name might appear as something like “Shadik” “MasterShadik2” or even as far as “Shadon” (the far more balanced spiritual suppressor to Shadic!". In terms of other shit, on one or two sites I have names like “Protoman X” or “Zero but not really” because I love megaman.
That was a lot. Wao.
It fits.
Used to play as SilverBolt (from the Transformers), then changed it to S-Bolt-- because it seemed cooler. And then at some point people started calling me Bolt or Bolteh, so the second one stuck.
I think I remember there was a thread like this before, and I guess I forgot to write mine…
Well, it’s pretty lame really. I had a barbie doll I liked, so I made it clothing so she would look like Heath Ledger’s Joker - black shoes, purple pants, blue shirt and a green vest with a little chained pocket watch -, painted her hair green with a sharpie, used correction liquid to paint her face white, and detailed her eyes and mouth with a pen. She looked pretty good, if I may say so myself, although I have no pictures. I wanted to think of a name, and I figured ‘ine’ is sort of a female suffix, so I named her ‘Jokerine’. And I guess I liked how it sounded, so here I am 
I wrote a story for Swedish class when I was nine, there was an evil alien overlord that needed a name, I just kind of came up with Fnork on the spot.
At the time my internet names were either 1280x1024, which was the resolution I had at home, or Mamma Scan, which is a Swedish meatball brand.
Years later I guess I just kind of decided that I wanted a new name, remembered my old story and decided that Fnork was as good a name as any and probably usually available.
In case it ever wasn’t I decided to use Fnorkus instead and that became my primary one for a while, still the most common for my various accounts, but recently I decided to go back to just simply Fnork.
When I was signing up for a Star Wars account (I was/am a big star wars fan), I was thinking of a username, and naturally, any true star wars fan would agree that “Han Shot First”, so I made that my account name. It just sort of stuck afterwards. Although I have moved on to “BoomCandy”(From the shotgun ammo boxes in Black Mesa) since I made an account here.
Definitely seen this before. I’ve been Flatline, or some variation thereof, since 1997 when I created my first e-mail address with Yahoo! (the only real option at the time).
The name itself comes from a character Dixie Flatline from the novel Neuromancer by William Gibson which I had literally in my backpack at the time of registration.
Back in 2006 when I first started seriously getting involved with the interwebs I was a big fan of Pokémon. Rayquaza was (and still is!) my favorite, and since I was 13ish at the time, I chose to go with RayquazaKid.
Strangely enough, I insisted that I be called RK though just because it was simpler and because having a nickname (I know, a nickname of a nickname) just sounded nice.
I went with this until I joined a forum in 2009 wherein I flat out shortened my name to RK because, believe it or not, I wanted to evade the inevitable Google search (because my mother even told me she’d Google RayquazaKid from time to time).
I’ll put the dot in front if whatever site I’m joining (such as this one) have a minimum username length. And if the dot is illegal, I’ll go by RQK instead.
I was actually born inMaxey, UK and after a 4 year stint as the first Baby Mayor of that particular area of England, I decided to fly around the world in a giant paper plane I built myself. However I was hit with a very strong wind right when I started flying above Portugal and fell in the current town I live in still.
When I finally got internet and had to decided a name to use, I think it was a rather easy choice.
Actually it’s a cutesy, shortened version of my old IRC nickname Max_Payne.
Fergus is not my real name, even though it’s often been mistaken for it. One of the reasons that I have some irish guys on my steam friend list.
It’s rather funny that some of my “IRL” friends calls me Fergus or Feggan, one of them being my cousin(or second cousin, we’re both. Not incest, his mother is my dad’s cousin and his father is my mom’s brother).
When I started playing online MP games in 2007(I know, that’s late as…), I just needed a name. I tried some really lame names like spaghetti and lord of rifles, and then one day Fergus just popped up in my head, don’t know where it come from. My friends have speculated that it’s from the CS bot name Fergus, but that’s not it.
I also go by Mr_Plumrich or Ti-fiego in places where a generic name as Fergus is already taken. The story of Mr_Plumrich is below, Ti-fiego really has no story.
I created my first steam acc.(It’s now VAC-banned) in 2007 and I named it PlumRiderOfDoom, from the xbox Counter-strike cheat code PlumRugOfDoom(Not really a cheat). When that acc. was banned I created a new one, with the sorrow of losing a good name to a stupid fun time, I named it Mr_Plumrich.
So I guess you could call me Fergus Plumrich.