Why did you choose your username?

Let's see everyone explain their username...

Back in '95 I was introduced to the internet and subsequently Perch32 (a chatting forum). I needed a username and being a big Weezer fan at the time, I chose my favorite song "Surfwax America" and tacked on the last 2 digits of the year...

Favorite Song + Year = Surfwax95

I've used it for everything ever since...

You?

mine is pretty obvious, except for the fact the the number 8 is my lucky/favorite number

i used mine cuz i made a new gmail adress and this is it, so i use it for everything now

Mine is actually not that relevant anymore. I was a big dave matthews fan for a while and three of my favorite songs with Tripping Billies, Monkey man and #41.

Haven't listened to them much in the past few years but I don't change usernames very often

nick name

Given to me by a granddaughter to identify me from her other Papa based upon my "unique" hairstyle.

In high school I got real big into hardcore punk and punk in general, I also was in the band playing tuba (still play tuba today). So I put two and two together and you'e got PunkRockTuba. Ive tried other usernames, but none of them work like this one.

I've always been a huge fan of punk music since I was a kid (now 21).. And since I'm a huge geek, as most say, I formed "punkr0x0r," meaning "punk-rocker" using leet speak, kinda showing my two favorite things: Punk/Ska music and technology.

I was signing up for yahoo email in 1997 and I had been working as a truck driver in the summer to make money for college. I used my first name and the number of the truck that I had been driving all summer. I've been using it since. Still have the yahoo email account too, though I rarely use it.

I joined the Usenix mailing list in '89 (I know, dating myself) and I needed a username. There was a carabiner sitting on my desk at the time so I typed that in (misspelling it in the process) and stuck the number 23 at the end.

The rest, as they say, is history.

(The Felix avatar came around the same time-- I've always been a fan of that cat.)

Mine is my name. The D is for Dennis and you know the last name. 7 is a number I have always used with my name for a few reasons.

nvm...

The Wicker Man is my favourite song by Iron Maiden (my favourite band) and I use it as my username for most forums etc.

Well my name is Annette but some of my family calls me Netty. I added the 4mac because I'm Nutty4mac's(as in crazy for macs) but I changed it to Netty4mac...haha get it?!?

I chose my screen name SunsetRoadzter because my car color is called LeMan's Sunset and it's a convertible. Nissan 350Z Baby!!

It's the name I use on pretty much any message board I post on. However it is derived from one of my favorite KMFDM songs "Godlike". I just replaced the God part with my name.

Mine is my old login for my work network. I still use it today and it's been 12 years since I got it and 6 years since i left that company.

Mine is because when I signed up for my first forum back in 2000, I was working as a photographer. Hence Say Cheese. I use different variations with and without spaces/hyphens/underscores between the two words.

The avatar was made for me by somone on another forum.

When I applied for a university e-mail address I was apparently the seventh J. Helm... at my school. I have no real strong affinity for James Bond, but some of the books and movies were pretty good.

I'm a huge Philadelphia Eagles fan, Donovan McNabb's number is 5, and GreenEagle doesn't sound as good as SilverEagle, in my opinion.