How did you come to get your screen name?

[RangerDanger75]

I picked Redneck because I live in Southeast Texas. 'Umm, yes sir! Thats just how we roll 'round down yonder in my neck of the woods' *Spit* Ding!!!!!

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAAAAAAAAAAWW!!!! I'm from Alabamer!

Igot my name from the 75th Ranger Regiment of the U.S. Army. I've been a big fan of theirs for quite a while. I alternate between RangerDanger75 and ReconRanger75. Ranger Danger is just a kind of goofy thing that me and my Army buddies say, although I'm sure other Joes say it as well.

[HarbingeR]

I picked HarbingeR as a nick way back in the late 90's / early 00's as it means 'bearer of ill omen'; a messenger of doom. We started playing lots of FPS games and I had mad skillz

I use HellborN-HarbingeR when the first isn't available or as of late, BloodSteyn

[MadOverlord]

I've been 'Trebor the Mad Overlord' since 1980.

[cd7890]

i use my screenname on other forums

[norinvaux]

'Twas about five years ago when I got around to trying out World of Warcraft. I wanted a 'Night Elf' sounding name, and went with Norinvaush or something, but then when I remade my druid, I just went with Norinvaux.

Despite no longer playing WoW (due to it being a massive grindfest, though it's still an awesome game if you just don't level up and instead explore), I still use the name nearly everywhere I go. Aside from IRC, in which I use 'GuyWithAGuitah', 'ThisGuy', and 'ThatGuy'.

[Zyamos]

When I was a young newb, I wanted to join a forum. I wanted my name to be unique, something that no one else would have. So, I came up with Zyamos.

[matty406]

Way back when, I picked up Runescape and looked around for a username. I used 'Chrome' because I saw my Chromehounds case, but of course it was taken and it suggested some numbers for the end, I went with Chrome406 because it was easy to remember.

Somewhere along the line it mutated to matty406 to become more recognizable to people I knew in the real world.

My real name is Hansen McDahl Johnson.

No, it's Matthew, Matty, Matt, and the like.

[Architect]

I have this name because I like to take pictures of Architecture and I like to look at Architecture and also there's that thing where if your the Architect that means you have designed either a building or a piece of software (Namely a 3D space with it's own 'rules' like physics and other things). I would like to do both but most probably only will do the second one (hopefully)

[Sam]

...my mum chose it

[Warringer]

It was back in the late 90s when we finally got an Internet connection with a modem 56k. I had this good idea to get ICQ and AIM to chat and needed a handle.

So, I looked to my favorite SciFi series, Perry Rhodan, and selected the name of a top scientist there. But I didn't correctly remember the name and made a typo, making me known as awarringer for a couple of years.

Eventually, when I joined SpaceBattles, i decided to drop the 'a' and as such became known as 'Warringer'.

The rest, as they say, is history.

[DoctorEvo]

I went to evil medical school for six frickin' years.

[Xenoc]

Back in 2003 I started playing a very fine game called Planetside. i needed a character name, and had just finished reading some Peter F. Hamilton stuff that was repeatedly referring to xenos and xenocs. It appealed to me. Been using it ever since

[Sam]

Back in 2003 I started playing a very fine game called Planetside. i needed a character name, and had just finished reading some Peter F. Hamilton stuff that was repeatedly referring to xenos and xenocs. It appealed to me. Been using it ever since

Planetside was amazing! new one out soon

[Xenoc]

Yeah, unfortunately I have no faith in SOE being able to pull it off. There's about a dozen of us from my old outfit who will no doubt still have it on pre-order the moment it's available

[Sam]

if they just took the old planetside and gave it a new graphics engine I'd be happy, oh and delete bfrs...

[HAL 9000]

Good afternoon, Gentlemen!

It all started when i was about 8, when me and my brothers saw '2001, a space odyssey'. We were all fascinated by HAL, and suddenly they decided that they would call me HAL 9000 (because my name starts with Hal- )just to irritate me (which i actually was, being 8 years old and all). Some years later i found out that it would be fun to use on the internets, so I have been using it ever since. 8)

[Caspian Sea Monster]

Ironic, since I was born and grew up in/around Palmdal

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[KingAirDriver]

Ironic, since I was born and grew up in/around Palmdal

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Palmdale? Cool, I'm from Lancaster! However, I live in Kansas now (since '99). Gotta love the stuff that comes out of Plant 42.

Anyway, about my I.D...

I used to fly Beechcraft King Airs (90 and 350), among other business planes. I now instruct in the C90GTx. I started using KingAirDriver years ago when I started flying them and it stuck!

[Caspian Sea Monster]

Palmdale? Cool, I'm from Lancaster! However, I live in Kansas now (since '99).

Sweet, another AV kid! I was actually born in Lancaster and grew up in Acton; I just say Palmdale for the sake of simplicity. There are several Lancasters but only one Palmdale, and considering the AV is more or less the cradle of supersonic aviation I would hope that most people here would recognize the name. I moved out as well about 3 years ago, living in Spokane, WA now. I kind of miss all the airborne activity but I do not miss the wind and weather.

[KingAirDriver]

Sweet, another AV kid! I was actually born in Lancaster and grew up in Acton; I just say Palmdale for the sake of simplicity. There are several Lancasters but only one Palmdale, and considering the AV is more or less the cradle of supersonic aviation I would hope that most people here would recognize the name. I moved out as well about 3 years ago, living in Spokane, WA now. I kind of miss all the airborne activity but I do not miss the wind and weather.

I hear ya on the wind! Kansas has wind ALL the time, and we're at 40+ days of triple digit heat right now. At least the desert was dry- the humidity can suck at times, but at least it's not as bad as the Gulf states!

[KerNailZ]

My real name is Niall, and I was niall_UK for a long time, but then a dutch mate of mine on another forum changed it to nailz, hard to say niall i guess, and it stuck...

added the Ker bit on here because a google search of internet 'handles' brings up way to many hits, so every new forum gets the little addage..

[jgjiscool]

My screen name features all of my initials. Basically a self compliment. 8)

[Drakomis]

Drakomis? Well, got it from a Main Character I still use today for stories. Created him when I was 14ish or so, name stuck ever since I guess.

[oheels]

My RL name is joel

if you spell out the letters:

jay-oh-ee-el

then...

oh-ee-el

oheels

ta da

[Johno]

My real name is Johnathan. However, I am Australian; and we always shorten everything. Every Johnathan in the country is automatically Johno.

That said, my usual nickname is 'Sir.' School kids can't be bothered learning names.