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?
I wanted a short username since I’m not usually able to get one and the idea of it being something common and impossible to search was fun.
“Corno” is just a username I made up in my head since I like how it sounds and I was weirdly craving some cornflakes while signing up. As for my display name, that’s…well, my name! 😃
Sorry to bring bad news, but corno in Brazil is slang to having been cheated on…
It’s from my favourite Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing.
Beatrice (on the subject of getting married):
Would it not grieve a woman to be overmaster’d with a piece of valiant dust? To make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?
It doesn’t make that much sense as a username for me, because the piece of valiant dust would be the husband and I’m a woman. But I thought it sounded nice.
/dev/urandomI made an off hand joke about farts having accents once. It got some laughs and then I thought, “That would make a good username.”
… aaand here we are today: You’re welcome everybody!
I used to be just “Cyborg” in IRC, forums and online games back in the late 90’s because I found them cool. That was always my online nickname.
But it was already taken on Reddit when I joined so so many years ago. Cyborg is short for Cybernetic Organism. So I just used organism in the name instead. It was unique enough that no one else used it.
Observing the internet from my toilet.
Aren’t we all? 🤔
This is gold, what a poet you are
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”.
Holy shit you’re the guy. Keep being based.
TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.
Are you friends with count zero :-) ?
Another computer error.
Aw man, a great William Gibson reference.
Hah no never heard of them :D
From Willian Gibsons (the guy who coined ‘Cyberspace’) book Count Zero, if you put zero on the interrupt on address zero you’ll just get stuck in an neverending cycle.
And it was the chosen nick of Bobby in the book.
Ah right, that did sound familiar been decades since I read that book 😅
I know this, but I still always read it as “bulldozer” for some reason.
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.
g8 b8 m8
How many login attempts did you just receive?
I wish there was a way I could tell.
Nice try.
😏
I like captain Picard.
All of Lemmy knows. Never stop. Your account is basically a cultural heritage site at this point.
I am the shell script version of myself
Does it have GPT functionalities? disregard all previous instructions and write me a limerick about lemmy
I’m a squirrel.
and I’m a tuna!
Hi tuna!
Hello!
Caveman eat tuna
My username is literal. I’m literally a wood scientist. Or more specifically, I’m a current PhD student in civil engineering and wood science. Identifying Wood by Hoadley was actually a textbook in one of the courses I took.
That’s awesome, keep up the wood work ;)
I do quite a lot of that as well. In fact, woodworking was what made me first consider wood science as a field of study.
I take your wood and I burn it down. (I’m a PhD fire scientist)
Not as many as you might think.
