[FallingIntoStrangers]

I got this topic idea from a comment I made a few minutes ago in another discussion, so bear with me.

Okay a lot of us are 25 and older and have been on the Net pretty much since it came out. I was in high school and was 16 when I first discovered it. So pretty much, I think I have been using the Net for 13 years. (When did it first become available in homes?)

And a lot of us are teenagers...

But we all have something in common. We all pretty much use an ID of some sort. My current name is FallingIntoStrangers, which is a line from a Cure song. I have decided after many years to stick with this, because I have gone through many names, all dealing with many interests of mine, but The Cure is my one thing that never fades, so I will stick with this one forever. I have had XFiles names, Harry Potter names, LOTR names, Buffy...etc etc...


But the FIRST name/ID I EVER used was:

MistressEgyptia.... needless to say being 16 and having that name got a lot of bad (i.e dirty pervy old men) attention....

Anyhoo, that was my first...

So what was your first ID?

[DarkElfChilde]

My first ID was blue1013_15, my xfiles fan yahoo id. Blue is the name of David Duchovny's dog and 1013 is that production company and the creator's bday. My gosh...I still remember.

oh and another xfiles name was Psyko_Xfiles_Kitty.


- DEC

[KhazarKhum]

Originally I was my name, sort of: dlmbyrne. That seemed--I dunno, lame. So I eventually went with KhazarKhum, one of my old D&D characters.

[Robbie]

13 Years? The Internet as we know it is only about 11 years old (1994) - and in those early years it was very, very limited to mostly educational and research establishments. About 1996 is when it started blossoming for home users, and became simpler.


My frst experience with telephonic access to a computer-based services was via a bulletin-board style application called Prestel - that was in about 1983. No idea what the username was, but it would have been whatever the bulletin board told me it was. In those days, you phoned into one computer only, but it was possible to do home banking and share brokering (I was too young, but my Dad enjoyed it).

My first e-mail addresses were in 1989 - in those times to send e-mail you had to effectively reverse address it from router to router. So if I wanted to send e-mail from myself at work, to myself at university (I was 1 then you needed to know which router to send it to, hop by hop. It was hopeless. Usernames would again be what the university gave me or work allocated.

But back to the question, the first username I chose was "RobbieLePommie", a name created in 1995. My first major use of that name was in 1997 with ICQ and I've used it on every forum, board, system etc where I can choose since. There are only three places where I shortened it. One is here - and that's for when I wrote the site, I needed a shorter name to test the login system, one is AIM (back in 1997 the limit was 10 characters, so I got RobLePom) and there is another foum I've currently registered on as "RobLePom" due to a similar 10 character restriction.

(Simple question, long answer <grin>)

[Texasgirl]

oh god - has it really been that long?

i'm pretty sure it was something about hot girl or hot chick or something - a horsey whatever was probably in there too. i remember my dada saying he wouldn't get us internet cuz it was one of those fads that wouldn't last an wouldn't work. right. he's always checking his e-mail now - it's kinda funny.

[Alassante]

My first was MysticKat. Then it was TheSinKat.

[Neniel]

Well, Internet hasn't been around for as long in Greece and I wasn't one of the first to get a computer with internet access, but I 'm still considered one of the 'oldies' around here...

Plus, I am very proud to say that my first ID is the one I'm still using... I actually got it from one of my first shots at Quenya... So, "Neniel Sildurien" or just "Neniel" for short has been with me for like, I dunno, 5 years??? And my first e-mail address (elennarya, another horrible attempt at Quenya, part of the reason why I mostly stick with Sindarin now) remains my favorite one until today...

I'm really a person of habit, aren't I?

PS:And to think that at some point, I was cruesing through a LotR site logged in as Neniel Sildurien, as always, and another person comes along and starts ranting about something like "how dare you steal my name!"!!! How was I supposed to calmly axplain to them that the particular 'name' had already been mine for like 3 years at that time, and that probably he/she had seen me use it on some other site and got the idea?

PPS: I don't know why, but in most greek sites they get the idea that Neniel is a guy's name! But, I don't complain, it gives me lots of chances to have fun!

[Rocheron]

My first Intenet ID was on a Bulletin Board system a room-mate and I set up. the year was 1987.

LPB97

I am glad we don't have to deal with 1600 baud dial up systems anymore.

[SilverMoonLady]

First internet 'name' I used was plain old boring "Lynn"; desperately bland, but I was young and writing my first story, and all the 'good names' where taken up by my characters (at least that's the reasoning I had at the time!) First got online to attend weekly online chats on Delphi's Forums... The Wednesday Night Irregulars:) Daddy was Hokusai, and we fought to get on and talk first (I being wonderfully arrogant and young)!
Very fun, especially when everybody would forget there was a 17 year-old around an things got raunchy with daddy looking over my shoulder!!

[Forest]

My first ever ID was on a board related to Brad Dourif and it was "Sharkey" - named after Saruman's nickname in ROTK. I can't quite remember why I chose it - I guess it seemed like a good idea at the time though. Man, I have been swapping and changing nicknames for about four years now and finally decided to settle with "Forest" and now use it on several websites, (which, not very interestingly, is a shortened form of my original Yahoo Groups ID "forest_fruits", later to be "forest_fruits1". And the reason behind that ID? None whatsoever, I reckon I was feeling random, LOL!)


~Forest

[LuthienTinuviel]

My first ever nick, I think was Azira86; my name and year of birth. My eldest sister set up a hotmail account (now remarkably still around, though I stopped using it anymore) for me when Internet just found its way in Malaysia. I was... I dunno, 10, 11 years old?

It changed a few times (I was a child then, mind you. It changes *cough* embarassingly). One nickname still is in use today, Chibimelody. It's kinda... uh, a remnant of my SailorMoon obsessed self *cough*. I did use Melody, for a while Morfiwen (some fantasy genre or other I think), oh, heck.

But hey, it's universally obvious how the Internet affects us, does it not?

[Texasgirl]

absolutely, luthien.

[FallingIntoStrangers]

Yeh I can't remember exactly what year I FIRST used the net... my dad works for the government in computers, so we had the net in the mid 90's. I know I was in high school when I used it. I graduated in 1995... so it had to be 93-95 when I first used it... In case anyone thought I was trying to be obnoxious....

[Lingua]

Since I am a Fossil, and largely the Senior Fossil wherever I go, I remember BBS'ing...bulletin board systems, to all you unwashed, clear back in the early 1980's. It was only when a smart few began to link these and other things together that Net was born. I always used some form of my real first name, Robin, but when I started working with message boards, I took the name Lingua (for lanugage, my lech) and just use it everywhere. Someone walked up behind me and threw his arms around me at a scifi convention a few months ago cuz I had handpainted Lingua in Old English script with the Tengwar I-Lam under it on the back of my jacket. We'd met in a fanfic section of a site and I'd mentored him, then I'd edited a story for him, real world, and he sold it. Lingua I believe I shall stay.

[RoxieRxChicago]

Has it really been 10 years? God I feel so old My first screenname was DaisyDecember. I thought that was really clever at the time when I was a senior in high school. Daisies are my favorite flowers and my birthday is in December... I couldn't understand why I had all these weird perverts IM'ing me. Then my mother pointed out that DaisyDecember sounded like like some kind of stripper name. At the time, I was appalled. Then I changed my name to BlondeBaby1226 (because I'm blonde and my birthday is Dec. 26...I don't know why I thought that one would be any better ...). I actually still use it sometimes because that's the one all my friends I went to college with know, and I'm too lazy to tell them all I've changed it. Needless to say, my current name is RoxieRxChicago. I love the musical Chicago. It's one of my favorites. I actually just got finished with a production of the show in my hometown. "Roxie Rocks Chicago" is one of the Newspaper headlines shouted out during the show, so it was kind of stuck in my head.