[SpaceWeavil]

I haven't been online for very long in relative terms. I didn't have a phoneline when I lived in London, so I only used the internet at college or at an EasyInternet cafe. (Used to live in the one on Tottenham Court Road).

My first ID I think was 'Valeyard', after a character in Dr Who. At the time I was writing my major DW epic about that character (which is now locked away in my cabinet of shame, ).

After that, when I got my internet installed here at home, I used the very imaginative jessica_ramage or jessramage. On email I was 'moonbase804', which was a reference to Gerry Anderson's TV series UFO - they had a moonbase and one of the characters, Paul Foster's service number was 804. I later used moonbase8548, which was the same moonbase, and 8548 was my membership number of 'Fanderson', the Gerry Anderson fan club.

After that I had some hassle on the UFO yahoo groups and got nasty persons IMing me so I changed initially to babylawyer1979, but that ID stopped working for some reason. I was then 'Moth Hotel', which referred to a comment made by someone on the UFO boards that none of us could understand, so it became a rather lame running joke that only two people on planet earth either get or find funny.

I'm now Space Weavil, which is a misspelled Space Weevil (only I typed it by mistake, then when I went to change it, found that the proper spelling was already taken), which is a line from 'Red Dwarf', where they were cooking space weevils. It just popped into my head when yet another screenname stopped working and I needed to think of something no one would have taken.

[ghettoelleth]

[Texasgirl]

so, well, originally you, jes.

[Lingua]

Did I forget to mention that this BBS'ing was done on a Commodore 64, as in, the entire machine had only 64K to it?? JEEBUS, that was fun compared to the kickass desktop and laptop I have today. I just rememberd this tidbit as I cleaned out an old closet today and came across a couple old C64's and a C128 (WHOOHOO! Double the size!) printer. Rotary wheel printer, like an old IBM electric typewriter. Electric, NOT electronic. Yeah, I'm older'n dirt.

[Yavanie]

Of course I'd never admit to being "old" but my first computer was an Atari 64. Desktop - yeah, it took up the whole desktop. and a 300 baud modem. But hey, I could talk to my fiance long distance without the charge. Course I could have handwritten a note faster, but it was so "cool" then. (I'm not saying when "then" was).

have no clue what my user name was. something the university assigned me. And don't ask Ro, this was years before I met him (not saying how many).

[Texasgirl]

is yaya feeling old?

[Yavanie]

[RoxieRxChicago]

Don't feel so bad Lingua. I had a Commadore64 once apon a time as well. And it is still in a closet, printer, moniter, and all...

[trekqueen]

[Silvae]

First it was 'Moth faerie'. Then it became 'Garfield_Rules' (even better! ). Now I just stick with Silvae, or Silvae_Nympha (& ignore the pervs). Even though I've found out since I chose it that Silvae, apart from the latin meaning, is also : a french rock band, the name of a medical journal, part of the name of about a dozen plants, and something to do with geology. Oh well.
(misspelt on EBay as Sivae, too But like Space, Silvae was already taken)
Silvae, inventor of... erm 'original' pseudonyms