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30th Anniversary of the World Wide Web

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  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I use to spend a lot of time on NewsGrounds

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    3clipse wrote: »
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    So what was everybody's cringey teenage screenname?

    Mine was Anarchisto.

    It's my forum name, because I was still an idiot teenager when I signed up here, ha ha kill me.

    I'm pretty sure that, with a few exceptions (GameFAQs, maybe some others), I've been see317 since the AOL days.

  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    I used to spend a lot of time on SomethingAwful from 2000-2007. I still sort miss those guys. They had STANDARDS because you had to pay to post on their forums!
    I came to the PA forums because I was a cheapskate. Which reminds me I really should be contributing more to ClubPA now that I'm older and have more disposable income...

    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I became some form of Raijin Quickfoot about 18 years ago now.

  • rhylithrhylith Death Rabbits HoustonRegistered User regular
    Most of my screennames were randomly generated by the Dark Age of Camelot name generator.

    It is embarrassing that my lack of creativity means I’m still usin em years later but also they work so fuck it.

  • see317see317 Registered User regular
    rhylith wrote: »
    Most of my screennames were randomly generated by the Dark Age of Camelot name generator.

    It is embarrassing that my lack of creativity means I’m still usin em years later but also they work so fuck it.

    My screen name is my initials followed by my birthday, so don't feel too bad about being uncreative.

  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    My screennames are all the worst idea I had when I was picking, so far it's worked out great!

  • BucketmanBucketman Call me SkraggRegistered User regular
    I started lurking here in like 8th grade? But I didn't sign up for almost a full year. My name comes from an...experience my freshman year of HS.

    After marching in a parade for band some friends and I went to the local movie theater (since closed, RIP). We bought a bucket of popcorn, and it was an actual paper bucket. Afterwards we were waiting for our ride home and got bored and for some reason I got the idea to cut eye holes in the bucket, put it on my head, tie a bit t-shirt around my neck and run around K-Mary yelling "I'm the Bucketman!". I was riding the rocking firetruck when they finally kicked us out. Its been my thing ever since. My mom even helped me make a Bucketman Super Suit for Spirit Week once.

  • MuzzmuzzMuzzmuzz Registered User regular
    Juna_Starrider was (and is) my user name. It comes from a horrible Star Wars fanfic I wrote back in high school. Take a guess at which character she was a descendent of.

    Oh goodness, fanfiction.net was my jam. Imagine writing out stories about movie and tv characters, only to find out there was a whole community of people who did the exact same things.

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
    I was a moderator on a street team forum for an emo band.

    Not the official forum for the band, those nerds were posers, no the street team forum was where the real cool kids hung out.

    I colored the text in all my posts green.

    I had a pretty serious relationship with one of the other forumers in PMs and MSN Messenger.

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited March 2019
    the one proper decision young me made was not getting into those weird like, teenage online relationships

    I was too busy using RPGMaker, the old translated by some Russian guy version, to make games starring me and all of my (four) friends

    and then I joined what was ostensibly a Smashing Pumpkins/Zwan fanboard and met a bunch of young adults (hipsters) who dumped albums on me and guided and molded me into the wreck that stands before you today

    Depressperado on
  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited March 2019
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    So what was everybody's cringey teenage screenname?

    Mine was Anarchisto.

    <--

    whoa what the heck happened to the formatting of that

    BahamutZERO on
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  • JasconiusJasconius sword criminal mad onlineRegistered User regular
    i legitimately cannot remember what my first AOL screen name was... probably something to do with star trek but im drawing a blank

    it later became jedi_m_ryan when i found out what star wars was

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    I've been using Depressperado for a while, like a decade

    back when I enjoyed the Beatles, I was Nowhere Man for a minute

    also it's crazy that me and the internet are basically the same age, my birth heralding a new era for mankind

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    Muzzmuzz wrote: »
    Juna_Starrider was (and is) my user name. It comes from a horrible Star Wars fanfic I wrote back in high school. Take a guess at which character she was a descendent of.

    Oh goodness, fanfiction.net was my jam. Imagine writing out stories about movie and tv characters, only to find out there was a whole community of people who did the exact same things.

    I wrote Elder Scrolls fan fiction for a girl I fancied when I was 16, deluding myself that I was doing it to practice creative writing

    It culminated in a Thief crossover for some reason

    Luckily I never took the next step into publishing online, although I did write a Lemmings / Cannon Fodder crossover blog entry on the Hotmail blog platform

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    in 7th grade, I wrote a totally sick story about a down on his luck fantasy assassin who was getting chased by the Lich version of a wizard he had killed

    it ended with him finding a baby, and giving it to a priest at a church before pulling a Batman and vanishing.

    I turned it in for a creative writing assignment in my English class and my English teacher gave me an A because it was relatively well written, but also called a meeting between her, my parents, me, and the school guidance counselor because seriously it was brutally violent

    my parents were like "yeah we live with this mafck, you think we never had to read his crazy stories?"

  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    edited March 2019
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    So what was everybody's cringey teenage screenname?

    Mine was Anarchisto.

    My first username was on ICQ and was 'the orange kangaroo', which I shortened to 'tok' on IRC. Then I got really into dragons and oh look at the time gotta go story's over.

    Brovid Hasselsmof on
  • Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I got my screen name from a comic book I wrote in the fourth grade with the intent on selling it to Nickelodeon because they had never made a cartoon about beavers before.

    Guess what cartoon came out six months after I had this idea.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited March 2019
    I got my screen name from a comic book I wrote in the fourth grade with the intent on selling it to Nickelodeon because they had never made a cartoon about beavers before.

    Guess what cartoon came out six months after I had this idea.

    Rocket Power?

    JayKaos on
    Steam | SW-0844-0908-6004 and my Switch code
  • CenoCeno pizza time Registered User regular
    My user name here is actually my old one, and it was the name of my character in a Star Wars tabletop game years and years ago. A Jedi named Ceno T'Karr. I've drifted away from Star Wars since then, but I still dig the name.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I got my screen name from a comic book I wrote in the fourth grade with the intent on selling it to Nickelodeon because they had never made a cartoon about beavers before.

    Guess what cartoon came out six months after I had this idea.

    Ren and Stimpy: Adult Party Cartoon?

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    I got my screen name from a comic book I wrote in the fourth grade with the intent on selling it to Nickelodeon because they had never made a cartoon about beavers before.

    Guess what cartoon came out six months after I had this idea.

    ahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaa

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  • ElvenshaeElvenshae Registered User regular
    I Zimbra wrote: »
    So what was everybody's cringey teenage screenname?

    Mine was Anarchisto.

    ... Elvenshae.

  • never dienever die Registered User regular
    I’ve had this username for like 17 years now, since I was a young teen on the inter webs.

  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I once wrote two full scripts with me and my friends as D&D characters. I think the only reference I had to use for D&D stuff was the Baldur's Gate manual at the time.

  • sponospono Mining for Nose Diamonds Booger CoveRegistered User regular
    My AIM screen name was fliesinyoureyes4, because we were reading Catch 22 in school and I was cool as hell

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  • MorivethMoriveth BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWN BREAKDOWNRegistered User regular
    I had quite a few AIM usernames

    My most used one was OffcrCornjob because I thought the part in one of the MST3K Gameras where they thought a guy was named "officer cornjob" was really funny

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    edited March 2019
    I got my screen name from a comic book I wrote in the fourth grade with the intent on selling it to Nickelodeon because they had never made a cartoon about beavers before.

    Guess what cartoon came out six months after I had this idea.

    in science class we were learning about how things change to fit their environment and had to develop an alien species adapted to live on one of the planets in the solar system

    I chose Jupiter, and they were basically big sentient whales/manta rays that flew through the upper layers eating like, bunches of skyweeds?

    and a couple years later, I read a book by some fucking hack where Jupiter is inhabited by flying sentient whales/manta rays who ate fucking skyweeds

    I was furious at this psychic plagiarism

    Depressperado on
  • Rorshach KringleRorshach Kringle that crustache life Registered User regular
    i think i mentioned it before but my first online name was witty mcwitsalot

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  • PaladinPaladin Registered User regular
    Why does gamefaqs use the segasages font

    Marty: The future, it's where you're going?
    Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
  • Donovan PuppyfuckerDonovan Puppyfucker A dagger in the dark is worth a thousand swords in the morningRegistered User regular
    Muzzmuzz wrote: »
    Juna_Starrider was (and is) my user name. It comes from a horrible Star Wars fanfic I wrote back in high school. Take a guess at which character she was a descendent of.

    Oh goodness, fanfiction.net was my jam. Imagine writing out stories about movie and tv characters, only to find out there was a whole community of people who did the exact same things.

    I wrote Elder Scrolls fan fiction for a girl I fancied when I was 16, deluding myself that I was doing it to practice creative writing

    It culminated in a Thief crossover for some reason

    Luckily I never took the next step into publishing online, although I did write a Lemmings / Cannon Fodder crossover blog entry on the Hotmail blog platform

    Cannon Fodder was SUCH a great game!

  • The Cow KingThe Cow King a island Registered User regular
    I also spent way to much time searching for patches on the internet

    That shit was wild when you where trying to connect to mp servers

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  • Brovid HasselsmofBrovid Hasselsmof [Growling historic on the fury road] Registered User regular
    Muzzmuzz wrote: »
    Juna_Starrider was (and is) my user name. It comes from a horrible Star Wars fanfic I wrote back in high school. Take a guess at which character she was a descendent of.

    Oh goodness, fanfiction.net was my jam. Imagine writing out stories about movie and tv characters, only to find out there was a whole community of people who did the exact same things.

    I wrote Elder Scrolls fan fiction for a girl I fancied when I was 16, deluding myself that I was doing it to practice creative writing

    It culminated in a Thief crossover for some reason

    Luckily I never took the next step into publishing online, although I did write a Lemmings / Cannon Fodder crossover blog entry on the Hotmail blog platform

    Cannon Fodder was SUCH a great game!

    Cannon fodder was my first RPG when I were a young sprout. I gave all the individual little men backstories and would chat away while playing as if they were talking to each other. I spent ages just sitting on that screen with the queue of recruits and gravestones talking to myself.

  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    I would always keep Jools back in missions and send the others on ahead, to try and keep him alive as long as possible

    A lot of good Privates died to get that man to Major

    [Muffled sounds of gorilla violence]
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