This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative.
So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it?
Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?
Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.
TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.
I opened a physical dictionary to a random page and pointed to a word without looking.
First attempt was diarrhea
I like captain Picard.
All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.
Mine is my password I use for all my accounts. It is very convenient for the frequent times I forget it. I can just come here and there it is.
How many login attempts did you just receive?
I wish there was a way I could tell.
Ehhh it is what it is.
Glitch from the original Pokemon Red/Blue.
CB radio user names are called handles. One of my nicknames is The Vandal. I think Subterranean Homesick Blues is one of Dylan’s best. Violà.
I was playing some crappy F2P MMO (Perfect World, maybe?) and I made a warrior of some werewolf race. Just played with random wolf-related combinations and settled on this. Quit after two days and the username carried on for probably 15 years now.
I don’t even really know all that much about Stalin. I just pulled it out of my ass.
My poochie was clinically depressed
I was promoted from the rank of Commander.
I had a job doing QA where I had to create user accounts. Some Guy was one of the three that I created every day.
I am the shell script version of myself
Birch, please.
I get dizzy during sex
Resol - can mean a number of different things. It’s the first 5 letters of the word “resolution”. It’s also the word “loser” spelled backwards. It’s two notes on a keyboard (D and G in Anglo-Saxon music notation). And it just looks and sounds cool in my opinion.
van - the Dutch word meaning “of” or “from”. Note that I am not referring to actual vans (the German equivalent being “von”, which also appears in a lot of names). Also I prefer spelling that word completely in lowercase.
Lemmy - isn’t it obvious? It’s this wonderful website.
Put them together, and you get “Resol van Lemmy”. It sounds pretty nice, don’t you think? Especially since I really hate my real name.
