Heh. I still use my original internet handle, fatou dust. Which I chose when I still thought the internet was going to be all geeks and everyone on it would get the math reference. No one does. But it was a pretty good unique id for a long time. There are some others out there now, but it was mostly me.
Mercy is the mark of a great man. Guess I'm just a good man. Well, I'm all right.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Liese S. - Jun 29, 2011 11:23:32 am PDT #14680 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
P.M. Marc - Jun 29, 2011 11:24:09 am PDT #14681 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Umm.
Bifster. Because it was funny for about 30 seconds. I used it on the high school in-house system. My first one in wide use, though, was Cloister the Stupid, which I used for years and years and years, and ran my boards under and everything. (Fannishness. Always a part of me.)
I think I've been active as Minim Calibre longer than I was as Cloister. Huh.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 11:24:44 am PDT #14682 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I never really had a non-name "handle," I don't think.
-t - Jun 29, 2011 11:24:48 am PDT #14683 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I used at least portions of my actual name, mostly, because I got my first e-mail etc. account through school. When I could use aliases it was variations on Multipurpose Goddess, which was a college nickname. Should I be embarrassed by that? I'm not. Mildly sheepish, maybe. But I also still use it. So.
I have always signed everything online with "-t", (which is also from a college nickname, I used "t" and my friend Tish used "T" because she was taller than me and we were both too lazy/busy to write out our full names (it was the 80s, it was a hectic time!)) hence my current login name.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 29, 2011 11:25:07 am PDT #14684 of 30001
You have to remember that being a 5-time Olympic medalist means Hilary Knight has been playing hockey at an elite level at least 16 years. It's impossible for her to be a teenage girl less than 16 years old, thus the President's complete lack of interest.
I think I used my initials and last name for my first AOL account. But my current monicker goes back to 1997 on The Bronze, and I've used some variation of it ever since.
Fred Pete - Jun 29, 2011 11:26:20 am PDT #14685 of 30001
Ann, that's a ferret.
I was Fred P. on Table Talk. (Very, very, very briefly.)
In other news, turns out I have a compressed spinal cord. Should be correctable by routine surgery, but I'll probably be off work for a week or two. Hoping this corrects the pain, tingling, and numbness in my left arm and hand.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2011 11:26:33 am PDT #14686 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Other early handles that I don't use at all anymore include dundus (Jamaican for albino) and Xaymaca (indigenous Jamaican word for Jamaica). I think I had AOL handles under both names. Everything else I used ten, fifteen years ago, I still use.
Jesse - Jun 29, 2011 11:28:25 am PDT #14687 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ouch, Fred!
I have some non-my-name logins floating around now, but it's pretty much the first time I've done that.
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2011 11:29:04 am PDT #14688 of 30001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
My first AOL screennames were all Mulder###, Mulder912 being the one that stayed with me post-AOL.
§ ita § - Jun 29, 2011 11:30:34 am PDT #14689 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I probably have ten handles in current use. Wait, now that I think about it, dundus is still active. I use it at AO3. Maybe closer to 15 active, really.
I should probably take lunch. I need a break.