So, tell us about your user name..............

[The Grand Wazoo]

Yeah, it's a bloody good job we've got this thread otherwise we'd never work stuff like that out, eh?
Just kidding Trevor!

[Fulci]

My username is my tribute to the great godfather of zombie horror movies, Lucio Fulci, who will be forever remembered through trashy b-series films, like the great "Zombie (Flesh Eaters)" or "The Beyond".

[RobbieGong]

Reggae is the 'foundation' music of a lot of the 60's / 70's uk born of Jamaican / caribbean parents. Marley has always been my musical hero from day one, He was also known as Tuff Gong because although he was quite small in stature he was one tuff guy, growing up in Trenchtown he had to be and could handle himself, he gained a reputation as not an easy guy or push over when it came to it and could fight if need be. I was known from school days as Robbie Dread because of my love of reggae and Marley. A while back one of my long time bros from way back, school etc started calling me RobbieGong -Hence !

[Mr Nad]

Mr Nad...

I love* NAD amps, and the dangly bits between my legs tells me I'm a chap. So Mr Nad it is.

[Werner Berghofer]

My user name is my real name, because

• I’m an uninspired person, and
• back in the pioneer era of computerbased telecommunication (in 1987 I founded the Austrian branch of the former worldwide “FidoNet”) using fake names was considered annoying behaviour.

Werner.

[phoenixpete]

Phoenixpete came about as I once had a kit car which was a "Sylva" Phoenix and I used that handle as my username on the Sylva kit car forum.
I tend to use it for everything now.

[farook]

Well,I am a big queen fan ! Farouk bulsara is one fred mercs
Real parsie name !
Cheers !!!

[Disles1]

Being interested in my family history (genealogy) I decided to have my DNA tested, expecting the results to reflect the Irish lineage on my father's side. I was totally surprised when my "group" was linked to the Bosnia/Croatia area since I had no known ancestors from that region.

I emailed a fellow who's the guru of the "I" group and after he investigated my results and his database he discovered a small sub-group with Scottish and Irish roots which, in terms of genealogical age - fit between two existing but disparate groups; one in Bosnia/Croatia (Dinaric), the other in the British Isles (Isles).

He named the new group "Disles" and since I feel I was the first to ask about it; I've claimed the title of Disles1.

[Lynn Olson]

Kind of old-school here; when I first used the Arpanet at Tektronix in 1985, using a screen name was considered pretty uncool, the kind of thing BBS'ers and the hacker community did. So I've always posted as "lynno" - my account on the VAX 11/780 machines in Building 58 of the Beaverton Tek campus - or my real name.

The Internet retained its Arpanet character, limited to university sites and companies like Tek and Boeing, until it was opened to the public by the advent of privately owned ISP's in the early Nineties. The BBS'ers shut off their sites and poured into the rapidly growing net, taking their on-line etiquette - if I can call it that - with them. The net changed its character pretty rapidly after that, kind of like the difference between licensed ham radio operators and the CB radio crowd.

I wasn't a fan of the shift in character, and was *very* glad when moderated groups like "rec.audio.high-end" finally appeared. Man, I really date myself with that reference ... oh well.

[Alex_UK]

Ken & Lynn - what a fascinating couple of posts - though I didn't quite fully understand Lynn's but got the gist!