Why did you choose this username for your Tildes account?

Always wanted this for a username

it's my name

So that when people say 'etc' (et cetera) it's like they're talking about me ;)

wait where am i?

I choose different usernames for each site, and also make new accounts every year or 2, so I've rarely really had a regular username. Now that I'm getting into some open source stuff, and sharing projects, I needed a name, so used one of those "find available domain names with X characters" sites to find a short .com, and the generator came up with this. It means nothing, but it was available, pronouncable, and I kinda like how it rolls off the tongue... So after 25 years of forums and web and tech, I finally have a stable nickname heh.

Reddit was the first place I developed a strong online presence (outside of Facebook). I created a generic user account for my initial forays there but, after a few weeks, I decided I wanted something a bit more distinctive. So I chose this name because it represents quite a few things which are, or have been, important in my life:

• Isaac Asimov is my favourite writer in any genre, but I came to him via his science fiction. Science fiction is my favourite genre.

• Asimov was, at one point, the President of the American Humanists Association, and I'm a humanist.

• I aspire to Asimov's clarity of writing, and his ability to explain things.

• 'Flowers for Algernon' is my favourite story, in any genre, of any length.

• I played the character of Algernon Moncrieff on stage. This represents my acting past.

• Oscar Wilde, who wrote 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in which Algernon Moncrieff appears, is another favourite writer of mine (and he's gay like me).

With such an appropriate username, that represents so many facets of who I am, I've come to identify with it quite strongly. Since creating it for Reddit, I've used it whenever I've branched out to other websites: I am "Algernon Asimov" pretty much everywhere I go on the internet.

The only change I might make if I was doing things differently would be to include a Star Trek TNG reference (Science_Officer_Algernon_Asimov or Commander_Algernon_Asimov would work!) However, this is my internet name now, for better or worse. It even has name recognition! (https://tildes.net/~tildes/1bo/clicking_on_a_reply_should_mark_it_as_read#comment-b8z)

I just wanted that sweet three letter name.
Also, I am an elf.

All hail the great hyptotoad!

This is a name I came up with for all of my public facing things, especially related to schoolwork and programming. In the past I learned that names that are googlable are a bad idea, so I picked this, which literally just means "silver" as an adjective in German. The only things Google finds are some translation sites, a bleach wiki article (???) And a soundtrack from Pokemon Shuffle. It's distinctive yet anonymous, and that's how I'm planning to roll as much as I can with all future usernames.

I was pretty interested in cryptography and physics when I was in high school, back in the glory days of Applied Cryptography and A Brief History of Time. So "dice" is sort of a reference both to RNGs and Einstein's famously incorrect statement about God and the nature of the universe.

I sat there staring at the registration screen for 15 minutes trying to abuse my early invite with a "clever" name and this was all that i could think of. Creative i know..

I like to have a unique username without underscores or numbers. In this case it was very easy because of how young the site is. I took my name from cirrus clouds, because I like looking up at the sky. It seemed easy to spell and pronounce, and also has some connections with aviation.

I use this for most platforms, ones on which I don't particularly care about anonymity. I love how easy it is to stay anonymous on here, and I fight as hard as I can to keep anonymity on the Internet alive, but I don't personally use it.

Anyway, this name has evolved throughout my life. My name's Vinny, and in 5th grade, some kid called me "Vineyard Lombrowski" for no particular reason and I found it funny, so I used it online for a bit. I thought it was a little long, so I shortened it to just "The Vineyard", which I later shortened again to just "Vine". A few years later, an app of a ahem somewhat similar name came out, and any time I did anything someone brought it up, My favorite color at the time was purple and I liked grapes. Grapevine.

I experimented with "Lowbrow" for a little bit (stems from the original 5th grade nickname and still connects to the theme of my modern name, it being generally used to describe uncultured people while grapes and grape-related products (namely wine) are generally seen as the opposite, thought it was a nice fit) but quickly came back to this name, as anyone I've met online knows me by some variation of Vine.

I always thought this story was funny, your mileage may vary.

Mostly because I dunno why I'm not high

I'm a dude.

Basing my username on reddit after a catch-phrase from a 90s anime that means "you're an idiot" has made forming professional relationships with people at Mozilla, over my running r/Firefox, feel a little weird.

Hey u/["you're a moron"], I was told you're the person to ask about...

So, well, these are my initials. I figure they've got an 'xkcd' vibe too.

I like to surprise people with the global twitch emotes browser addon.

Used to get letters in high school from various places that would massively butcher my name into things that weren't even close. Took one and now I use it.

It's my Reddit username. A combination of Philosopher and bard. I majored in philosophy in college and I play dungeons and dragons. I also majored in English in college and have a fondness/respect for the Bard, so it works on two different levels I guess.

Used to get called a virgin all the time in video games. Embraced the meme I guess hoping to make people laugh. Stuck with it since.

Well, Bear describes me, and I have what some might call an unhealthy love for all things bear, both 2 legged, 4 legged, teddy and otherwise. (that means I'm a gay man into bears, and I also heavily support wild bear conservation)

Plus we're cute, damnit! :-)

This username and variants tend to be my go-to. This variant is my preferred, but it's often taken way before I sign up for a service.

But why this username in particular? I like green and I've always been somewhat fascinated by knights, and the name "emerald knight" has a nice ring to it (I think so, anyway). It's really not any more complicated than that.

I just went with my name

It's a handle I've been using online for a while. It was an attempt to be clever by spelling anomaly anomalously, but I suspect that most folks just assume I can't spell. They wouldn't be particularly wrong... though this particular misspelling was intentional.

I never found my old usernames very meaningful, so I was excited to think through a new username here. I like mountains, so I first considered Sierra, but that's generally a female name. I looked through a few lists of mountaineering and skiing terms and found verglas, which is french for a clear sheet of ice that forms naturally over an object. Could be over rock, tree branches, or something else. I googled it, some beautiful pictures came up of things I've seen after snowstorms, and since it's easy enough to say (even though it's pronounced vergla in French) I decided to go with it!

My initials ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

My friends and I discovered the joys of spoonerisms a few years back, to the point that one of us answers to the spoonerized version of history name. One night, we were playing EDH (a Magic format) and my one buddy's general was Azusa, Lost but Seeking. I thought that was the best spoonerism fodder we'd found since Chuckie Finster and adopted it as a username shortly thereafter

I like mangoes and I like tigers.

My name is Daniel, and I figured, hey, why not be one of those trendy people with only their name as their username. Loving it.

Hung out with a friend of a friend once, and he noted that I shared a name with Captain Levi from Attack On Titan (Which was still huge at the time). In the subbed anime, I guess he was addressed as "Heichou", which is, to my understanding, an outdated honorific for Captain. So instead of calling me Levi, he just called me Heichou. I never had a nickname previously so this was pretty neat and it's been a lot of my usernames for a while now. I'm super glad I joined up early because I usually can't do just "Heichou"

I guess it's one of my favorite English words, sounds good and it's short. And it makes me think of potentiality and middle ground.

My name is a kind of falcon. I was reading The Once and Future King and they referred to the gyrfalcon as a falcon that only kings were allowed to own. I thought that was pretty neat so I brought it into my rotation of usernames.

Some people call me the space cow boy
Also a fan of cowboy bebop

I think that a four letter username is desirable, and often this one is taken.

When I first made a reddit account I wanted asdf as my username but it wasn't available so I went with asdf1617. So when I made my tildes account I wanted to take asdf but I instinctively types in asdf1617 because I've gotten so used typing that. I only realized the next day so now I'm stuck with it.

Edit: deimos came through and my username is now asdf.

Cuz 2001: A space odyssey is awesome! :)

Hook is my primary nick name, even some people from school and most hackers I know call me that. I actually turn around if I hear it on the street.

How it came about … Well, in high school we had a Linux box ran by the students and you needed a username for the login (max. 8 characters). At that time (late 90’s) I was very much into the real history of pirates and how their society worked (they had a type of social security, pensions, even for widows, democracy …). So I learned that both cpt. Silver and cpt. Hook were real and quite fascinating, I took it as mine (my fall-back nickname is usually silver_hook).

Later, hook turned out to be quite a fitting choice for different reasons. If you know me, it seems to fit me well, even though not in the same sense as the name-bearer I took it from ;)

My nickname has been through several iterations. As a kid, I dreamt up an online name for myself that ended in -blue. That got boring, so I changed it to -red. Then it needed to be 1337, and it changed to -r3d. That username is taken most often, so r5d it is. Coincidentally, R is the first letter of my real name and D is the last, with 5 letters in between. So it fits.

Who can guess my name?

Minimum length is three digits and 123 was taken, so why not get in while the getting is good?

I use this name for everything. Started as a name I used for terraria

Normally I'm jackson1442 (see literally anything on the internet) but I decided to change it up a little. Yes, I know being invited is a privilege and all, but I thought it would be really cool to just be 'jackson' for once, especially with all the other Jacksons in the world now, where I always have to be on my toes for someone else to have the same name.

My name is a reference to Gabe "The Inconceivable Glue Man" Degrossi, a character created by Jerma985. Why? Cause Jerma is hilarious.

It’s a reference to my favorite tv show right now, and I happen to drive a Pontiac.

It's an obscure ecological thought experiment describing a hypothetical super beast that I thought sounded cool

It's my first name. I normally have to do my full name, but it was actually available for once!

It's my name.

Chose the name that I have used since the good ole BBS days :)

At least now I do not have to wait in a queue for days to get access to information :=

Because it describes every single thing I would ever post anywhere.

I really like the book the hitchhiker guide to the galaxy. The extra b in Beebblebrox is because ZaphodBeeblebrox is usually taken. I would always add an extra b because of that. I could have taken the real name here, but at this point I'm just used to the extra b.

My favorite book is Flowers for Algernon, plus my name.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve grown quite weary.

I've been using this handle for several years. I was really into the idea of synths and cybernetics when I made it up. the "angel" part is from a story my partner made up when we were much younger. I still love both the story and him, and it's nice to have a username that reminds me of that every time I see it.

Meristele is a name I've used for 10 years or more. Before that I was Chanterai. (No, I don't sing well. I just like to!)

I like one word names with no numbers or symbols. While meristele does have a modern scientific meaning, I am using an archaic meaning documented from the 17th century in the unabridged OED. It's an archeological term for a two headed stele.

I suppose you could consider it a marker for many life changes that were going on at the time. :)

Beryl. Rhymes with peril.

The Crown S02E04. The dark room scenes. Beautiful episode.

I just chose the same name as my reddit username, which is based on one of Cartman's catchphrases from South Park. The original intention was for it to be a novelty account where all my comments would be what Cartman might say.

I use this name on every account for familiarity purposes. If I ever actually "make it", I'd probably use this as my official penname and whatnot.

Luna is a nickname I go by on Twitch (edit: not my username, but people tend to abbreviate it in chat as Luna), and also because I'm a Brony and my favorite princess is Luna.

I have a different username that I've used for absolutely everything online, including reddit. I decided I wanted a bit of a fresh start, what with the aspirations to greater privacy. Dunno why I picked this particular name; it just felt good.

I took my usual name and shortened it to the shortest I could get, because I have to show I was early somehow, right?

I like toast

I like this name. Short, doesnt mean anything, anonymous.

Eh, since I spend so much time modding music, it's about time I had a username that reflects my favorite album.

I was /u/PitchforkAssistant on reddit, so I grabbed @Pitchfork because I could.

I’ve been playing a lot of Mario Party and I like space ✨ 🍑

It's my reddit name.

Lesale is the name of Venomancer from Dota. I love everything about his appearance, gameplay, and lore. "Cop" came from "QoP" which stands for Queen of Pain, another Dota character I sometimes play.

I am from Australia hence the Oz bit. And Poider is a funny bogan character that actor Eric Bana played in a few comedy sketch shows. I'm just as big a bogan as Poider I reckon!

Nameplay mostly.

Part of my name but common enough that I can remain anonymous until I choose to

The first two I tried where taken, and then typed this in. Not sure I love it.

I've been using this username everywhere for a decade.

It’s an ingredient in my favorite soup. And it’s fun to say, is pronounced soon-doo-boo.

I use this name for everything. I've been using it for years. No point in changing it.

Because it's my current Reddit name and people know me by it

I tried getting "Nil" but someone already had it ... I've actually been lucky enough to get that on a few established websites/forums that have been online for years!

Whoever you are Nil, here's to you.

It's part of my overall philosophy on life and such. It's not that I'm passive or simply a lurker.

It's more that I think we confuse our conscious experience and pretend it's the entirety of our experience. I'm just an emergent property of my brain. A passenger.

If I can add value to myself, it's in helping my brain better serve me, my family, my community. It's an odd thought, but it's worked for me. In the end, happy or not, I get to own all the results of my brain, even if "I" disagree with them.

I choose my name because I like an unwanted or used person. I know it's boring most likely. I've been diagnosed Bi-polar and with Complex PTSD amoung other issues. One of my previous therapists pointed out at least 23 life events that in their self could cause long lasting severe mental illness. So with a said. I feel like I am alone on a planet of billions of people. Thanks for taking the time to read my comment. Hope you all have fun filled day and life!

I usually use lobster or some variation of it on all my message board accounts.

I’m curious about why @DefSci chose that name... :)

This person is one of the finest humans I know.

Same as on reddit. :)

It's my normal online handle but it's a combo of my first and middle name, Dale + Ogburn = Dogburn. I have no desire to combine fire and dogs.

I use this username for several other sites/services.

• It is unique enough that it is usually available at the time I register for a new site
• Easy to remember
• I've stuck with it for a while, it's pretty "me" at this point
• It imparts a sense of mystery; what's so suspicious about this particular taco?
• I like tacos

Honestly idk, gonna have to think about this question a bit more...

I have been using this username for at least a year now - it stands for malfunctioningtranshumanist, a monicker I assumed, together with the name Zero, at a particularly low point in my life. Though, I think that it describes me pretty well, so it stuck.

It's one of those traditional Lisp functions for accessing parts of nested lists, long and obscure enough to generally be available, and it rolls of the tongue nicely (I pronounce it k(a)h- dah- drr).

I used to think that programming would be my métier, but I ended up switching to humanities research (I'm studying to get a master's in linguistics, and am quite into literature). But I still use Emacs and other Unix tools, and write little scripts for myself here and there.

I chose this name because it's nice and short, and it isn't searchable.
It also sounds like sticks if you try to pronounce it.

In Japanese, lilies are called 百合 (yuri), which is what they also call the genre focusing on lesbian relationships. As for the three y's, it's a reference to Reol's Twitter handle @RRReol. The two capital L's in turn reference iLLness LiLin, a boss track in the rhythm game SOUND VOLTEX.

It's my name and i love cannabis 😁 (pretty obvious lmao)

It's the username I've always gone with. Not sure if I like it that much anymore, but until I'm dead set on a username I like better it's what I'm sticking with because at least there's consistency there.

When I first made a reddit account I wanted asdf as my username but it wasn't available so I went with asdf1617. So when I made my tildes account I wanted to take asdf but I instinctively types in asdf1617 because I've gotten so used typing that. I only realized the next day so now I'm stuck with it.

It just has a nice “rot” to it, I’ll let readers figure it out though as it’s not something that should be written out loud :)

It's the same as my protonmail username, which was made by DuckDuckGoing "random passphrase."

I’m using this name everywhere I can since the first time I used it for my first VAX/VMS mainframe account.

Because I try to

To not to make hard to the evil corps to connect my profiles on many platforms. I use that almost everywhere.

This is the first time I've had the same username on more than one site.

It happened more by accident than design.

This has my go-to online username since about 2014.
Origin: I wanted a manly but also unique semi-permanent username, so, being about 15 at that time, I modified 'draco', which means 'dragon'(well, more like serpent) in Latin, and there you have it - drakinosh.

Line from a poem I really liked. Moving away from prior Reddit username as seemed time for a change.

I've been using this name for a while. I was happy to get it without having to add numbers to the end. It's a combination of the Greek "para-" meaning abnormal, and "doxa" meaning opinion. Then there is the obvious connotation with "paradox" which of course means "self-contradictory statement", to sort of poke fun at myself, yet "paradox" itself comes from "para-orthodox" which takes us back to the original meaning.

It's the nickname my highschool friends gave me after I got an MD

This phrase randomly came up in a conversation with my boyfriend. I'm also trying use a different username that isn't so obviously connected to me that people in real life can find me.

I was looking at a plate of biscuits at Bob Evans, and my fantasy baseball team is the Montgomery Biscuits because I got drafted to that team in Road to the Show in the Show '14.

This username started as a nickname I got from a guy who I played football with as a kid, and it's stuck as my username for almost everything online since. No point in breaking the trend here.

I chose mine because I've always used it for websites.

In an effort to lay claim to the title of the most boring username on Tildes, mine is the first letter of my first name, then my last name.

I wanted a name for a dwarven character in an RPG years ago so came up with something that sounded appropriate to me, been using it most places since then as it's usually not taken.

I've used this name for my online accounts since my first runescape account at the age of about 10. Its not a real word so its never taken anywhere but its nice to grab it this early in the life of something like this.

I feel I'm fairly reasonable, open to changing my opinions. I also try not to take claims at face value without due diligence.

it's short, easy to remember and my initials! Win win [win]!

damn, now i feel shitty about my username.

I use this for almost everything, have since I created my steam account

I have this username everywhere, I'm extremely googlable though. Not like I was trying to hide anything by making online accounts though.

This is the one I use the most online, when available. It's from an episode of Futurama.

Picked /u/10thTARDIS on Reddit a few years back (apparently 6 years ago... wow, it doesn't seem that long), and I've generally used it for everything since then since it's almost always available. Though apparently somebody used it a few years before me and grabbed the gmail username before I could... but they didn't get the .com domain!

Awoooooooooooo

Because I love MDK.

V is my nick, but Tildes does not allow single letter usernames. So...

now I am wondering if its possible to change the username

I was doing a reread of one of my favorite books and decided to name my username after one of the "Gods" from the book. I didn't use the same username as my Reddit account because my personal rule is to never reuse usernames.

This is the name I use for literally everything since when I first made it it only pulled up a couple Spanish websites and a mis transcribed pdf document

{first-name}{lastname} is my go to for usernames since about 2008. It's a great reminder that anonymity on the internet is a thing of the past.

Didn't want it to be incorporated with my tumblr and online persona so I used my personal and reddit username

I had Golden Girls on last night for background noise. The episode with Blanche's "Moonlight Madness" party came on. I went with this.

The technological Singularity is near!

I use this username in lots of places. And 47 is my favorite number.

I was listening to a song by At the Drive-in. I don't usually share usernames between websites.

It was available.

Websites quickly run out of available 3 letter usernames and I wanted something easy to remember.

First name already taken. Went with an animal I like c: Gotta get in on those simple short usernames while they last :)

Came up with this username on other domains on an impulse(heh). I really like the concept of a paradigm shift, and was taking a physics course at the time and really liked what I came up with.

I'm arachnophobic and the concept terrifies me. Exposure therapy I guess

I really like Pink Floyd

For starters, it's a name I use everywhere, almost like a brand. But where did it come from, I hear no one asking.

Well, way back in the 90s, I was a user of America Online (shut up, it was BIG back then!) In AOL, I was a frequenter of freeform roleplaying rooms, most notably the Red Dragon Inn. The RDI was essentially a multiversal pitcher plant... people from everywhere wound up there, and such was the case for my Selunite priestess from Iriaebor... Kindra Thrabalen.

It's my rap name, if I ever became a rapper

Because that’s the sexy nickname that Monica gives to Chandler in the TV show Friends.

It's my Reddit name.

Great, you gotta scroll all the way down to comment.

It's just a shortening of the username I've had since 1st grade. Picked the first word that popped into my head and my favorite number repeated twice (because 0 times and once were both taken), and I've used it more or less for everything ever since. Recently I've started shortening it to just Diff when I can get away with it.

IDK I just like crocodiles I guess

I have this username because I'm puertorican and we often refer to ourselves as boricuas (while speaking spanish) rather than puertoricans. Another bonus it's that's its pretty short and easy to remember.

this is my username in most places

When I was in elementary school, Poptropica was pretty popular, and I really liked that game. I think my name for my first account was something like 'mumbo1553'. So, in Poptropica, when you first create your account, you get a few starting credits to buy cosmetics with. I spent all those and thought I wasn't able to get anymore, so I made another account, 'wumbo4886'. Then I did the same thing again. This time it was 'lumbo7332'. When I created that one I realized getting more credits was possible, so I felt kind of stupid. Then I just stuck with that name and I've used it for everything else since because I think it's funny.

Shortened the username I've put to use on other sites.

Still addicted to cigarettes, too, so there's that.

Because it is a factually correct username

Back when I was a wee lad I played world of warcraft and before any of the expansions I was in a guild called Random Acts (of Kindness). At some point I wanted to make a mage and as a joke I named it after the guild as joke. The name stayed and I am now the namesake of the guild of sorts. Keeping the name alive.... Although I'm not the only one on the internet name uses this name but either way I have used this name for a bunch of stuff since but it is still a 50:50 shot if you google and search to get me or the other person that uses my name. Well I was able to beat the other person to holding onto the name this time.

MyTildesAccount <GolfClap><GolfClap>!!!
First part of mine refers to one of the two greatest military strategists in history (Alexander being the other) - this is just IM[!]HO of course - second half is my middle name (obviously not the one I was born with LOL).
Don't ask me why I got all serious when I decided on it.
PS: I was "unknown_error" on, I think StackExchange. That's about as witty as I got LOL It's also my Wifi network name, along with "network_error" for the 5g.

I wanted something short and anonymous. My user name on most other sites makes it too easy to figure out who I am.

It was the first name i could think of

I had a good think about it and a couple of the ones I tried wasn’t available so I landed on this and it kind of stuck kind of wish I had gone for something funny thought.

Wanna share my pronouns and encourage that practice and I think it just sounds catchy

Lol.....
I have a bit of s temper, red hair and I'm hot

Thought this was going to be more like Reddit.

I am TieDyeHippy on another site and wanted to be a different kind of hippy for Tildes, so I came up with this one.

It's the name I use everywhere else

I just found the name of this song cool so i stole it.