Forum Nicknames - I still don't get it?

[mbkite]

Mb kite = Mercedes Benz mechanic and kite. I have 4 line kites (revolution kites) fly them like an airplane wing.
My son can fly them in and out of the ocean make it completely disappear and fly it out
Plus when my kids were setting up the computer 2 decades ago you needed a screen name
Reggie

[JDGolden]

Probably goes back to hiding identity due to "strangers on the internet". Remember when advice given was to NEVER meet someone from the internet? Look at all the internet dating apps these days.

My username is my real name here on AG.

[PaulMys]

My screen name is my first name followed by the first 3 letters of my last name.

No way I wanted to type all 11 of that Pollak last name when I first joined forums.

[57Rambler]

Oh and another thing... For the past 20yrs, everywhere I’ve ever been on the internet the name Eldorado is already taken. I think that’s a load of bull... I demand to know who this so called original Eldorado guy is because I sure as heck have never come across a single one of them ever. I wish I could have a face to face to see who the rightful owner of my name really is because I’m confident I’d be given the rights. Even here on this forum there’s supposedly an “Eldorado”

Ok rant over. But if that so called Eldorado guy reads this, I’m calling you out. Show yourself. Lol.

FYI, Cadillac melded the name of the legendary lost city of gold in to one word and then used it to name the new model they created to celebrate the golden (50th) anniversary of the company.

[57Rambler]

Privacy. Also, it's common in Forums. Several I'm still active in have threads dedicated to people needing new names. I've been online since it went public and way back in the early 90's it was list-serves via email and I still use some of my earlier email addresses and nicknames.

So did you petition the OSU Super Computing Dept. for access back then (as it was the only way to get online) ? I was one of their first 50 applicants. You got 5 hrs. of access time per week. Connection was achieved via a 2400 baud modem and you needed a terminal emulation program like RipTerm. I remember burning up a whole week's time allotment just downloading a tiny file ...

[Bruno Soares]

Sent Mike a PM. I have no reason to not use my name. Only chose first initial and last name as that’s what I’ve done forever in forums but this one people are a little closer and I like the idea of easily seeing everyone’s name.

[Eldorado2k]

FYI, Cadillac melded the name of the legendary lost city of gold in to one word and then used it to name the new model they created to celebrate the golden (50th) anniversary of the company.

I have an original brochure of the 1st Cadillac Eldorado from 1953

[alkemyst]

Stalkers and a lot of things. Forums are easy to search. That said I have been Alkemyst since the late 90's. Been online through X.25 since 1983.


Also that said I may as well use my real name since with that long of history I can be found.

For me I like Alkemyst though.

[Texchappy]

Never really thought if using my name. Just didn’t seem to be the done thing. That said I’ve been cadfael-tex-> ltzippy -> cptzippy -> texchappy across fora etc over the past 20 years or so.

[2black1s]

When I joined here I just used the same nickname that I used on a motorcycle forum... I had two blacks Harley's at the time thus 2black1s.