What does your forum name/handle mean or stand for?

[bigstick509]

Not sure if this has been done before but I picked up the idea over at the FOG website.
My forum name comes from baseball nick name and date of birth.

[leehljp]

My moniker comes from my original attempt at making a handle for use on the internet with AOL back in the early 90's. Back then with one computer for whole family, my moniker was intended to be for me and for LOML. We had a compuserve account with what seemed like a 40 digit number for identification. Hated that. Was glad that AOL back then was more accomodating.

LEE - family name
HL - Hank Linda
JP - Japan, our location at the time.

Since many names are common and taken on different websites, it has been easy for us to add "jP" or "jpn" to our name which does make it unique.

[dangre]

nick name and date of birth.

Mike's 105!!! Oh wait, 5/09 is month/day, not month/year. Whew.
Like Lee, mine is computer related. In the early days, a standard Unix login was the first three letters of your first and last names. So, Dan Grebinski became dangre and I just stuck with it over the years. It's not the British spelling for danger, as many think.

[Bill in Buena Park]

Bill = my first name

Buena Park = city where I live.

[Carpenter96]

Mine is simply
Carpenter = what I do
96 = football sweater number
Regards Bob

[Turaj]

Nothing fancy here!! Just my first name!

[Pappy]

Nickname hung on me by SgtMaj I worked for before I retired.

[atgcpaul]

In my first real job in and out of college for 8 years, I helped elucidate the DNA sequence of the first eukryotic plant genome, Arabidopsis thaliana. ATGC are the four nucleotides that make up everyone's DNA--adenine, thymine, cytosine, and guanine. Paul is my first name.

[capncarl]

Mine was a handle started by lock masters on the Chattahoochee river in my earlier years when I was operating large boats. It did not meet a lot of approval when I started working on a USMC base around ocifers that threw threw their titles around to impress others.
capncarl

[russde]

My childhood nickname within my family was Rusty (to distinguish me from my dad, Russel Sr)...years later (also around the AOL dominance era) I realized that the first two letters of my last name combined with the shortened version of my first phonetically equals my old nickname and have used combinations of it since.

[dbhost]

It was the computer account name I was given in High School back in the 80's. first initial, middle initial, first few characters of last name.

[atgcpaul]

It was the computer account name I was given in High School back in the 80's. first initial, middle initial, first few characters of last name.

Slapping myself on the forehead! I always thought "Database host".

[Condoman44]

Lived in a condo

and was always fixing stuff for folks that couldn't or wouldn't. Name stuck from that.

[LinuxRandal]

Mike's 105!!! Oh wait, 5/09 is month/day, not month/year. Whew.
Like Lee, mine is computer related. In the early days, a standard Unix login was the first three letters of your first and last names. So, Dan Grebinski became dangre and I just stuck with it over the years. It's not the British spelling for danger, as many think.

Sure it isn't danger, as the stuff in the shop goes flying.

I think mine is a little obfuscated. Choice of OS and name.

[dbhost]

Slapping myself on the forehead! I always thought "Database host".

Oddly enough I am NOT a database guy. I am a systems guy... Yeah actually in a lot of web software you see the string dbhost used to set a remote database host... But alas, that isn't where that name came from. Back in the day as it were, usernames were limited to 8 characters on the systems they used at our school, They were Apple II machines but they had some kind of directory type network service, Apple Talk or something like that, any way the school district standardized on first and middle initial, first 4 chars of last name, and then space for 2 digits if there were say 5 John A Smith's, so there would be jasmit, jasmit1, and so on...

It worked, for a while...

Modern operating systems don't have that limitation, but remember, the systems we were working on had 512K and that was considered a LOT for that time...