One of my first handles was "Necro_File."
I just meant, like, a 404 error. A dead file.
I didn't know about necrophilia. 🤦♂️
At the dawn of the internet
imgur
Hmmm
The internet first went online in 1983.
I may have t-shirts older than OP.
Tbf, having a shirt for over 40 years and not have it completely disintegrate is pretty impressive!
But yeah, for a minor history buff, I'm TERRIBLE with dates 😂
Thank you for taking good natured ribbing... good...naturely. Cheers.
No worries lol, laughing at yourself is one of the funniest things you can do 😁
My randomly assigned 4 digit discriminator on Discord back when I joined was "1488". Didn't know it was a Nazi calling card until one of the members in the community I was participating in tried to get me banned over it.
Fortunately it only took a month or so with Discord support to get them to change it. I contemplated buying nitro so people wouldn't think I was a nazi lol.
I know that's not the definition being referred to, but it being called a discriminator is tragically hilarious in this case 😁
holy shit lmaooo would be one hell of a tactic to earn money: "pay us money or we'll make you look like a nazi"
Why the fuck would they ban you over a DISCRIMINATOR??? YOU LITERALLY CAN"T CONTROL IT, IT IS DECIDED BY THE DISCORD PROGRAM!!
Same. I used my school username "1831942". Later, I found out that was the date the American Nazi party was founded...
On the 83rd day of January in 1942?
18th day of March 1942
That makes a lot more sense. I dunno how I didn't see it
Yknow what. Maybe I got I trolled a decade ago lmao.
🤷 Maybe it was a super leap year
Or Julian date!
Never go on a date with Julian. He's gonna insist on bringing his rum and coke no matter what you're doing and you KNOW Ricky's gonna try and tag along..
My username has absolutely nothing to do with drugs, but everyone thinks I've done crack. Never tried cocaine in any form.
Now I'm curious: what IS it about? Whipping? Ass cracks? Whipping ass cracks? 😛
LOL nothing of the sort. I first started using this alias when Quake 2 came out, and I joined a clan called "Crack". I was [Crack]Happy (because I'm such a happy guy) and I just kept using it elsewhere.
Why was the clan called "Crack" 🤔
Because we were all crack shots. It was a quake competitive team, and headshots from long distances while rocket jumping were a pre-requisite for even being considered.
Having a regretful username is something I experienced too.
Back in the late 90s, I used the nickname my girlfriend at the time gave me: "loverboy" (We were both 80s music fans, etc)
It turns out that was something very NAMBLA-y
When I discovered the issue, quickly switched it all over to my current username.
Only to have to do it all again when some dude from Staten Island named Mikey is poped
That may be me, too. I'm from Long Island, named Michael, and technically a pope in the Discordian belief system.
I'm just shocked that more people haven't taken my specific username. I only encountered in twice. Once with steam, and once with twitter.
Discordian? You mean you base your belief system on the books of Terry Pratchett? 😉
It's a belief system with the "holy book" being The Principia Discordia
It was written in 1957 by Greg Hill (Malaclypse the Younger) and Kerry Thornley (Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst).
For the most part, it describes a Discordian's relationship with society, Eris, and a Discordian's relationship with Eris. It also covers the basics of the POEE denomination of Discordianism.
While it comes off as satirical, absurdist, and insane, a lot of people use the meaning behind the satire to find meaning in life.
Some of the most important teachings involve seeing that life is 100% about perspective. Where everything can be right, even the wrong things depending on the perspective of the individual. So that can mean that all religions are simultaneously right and wrong at the same time.
A lot of Chaosists, like myself, also use Eris as a godhead of our belief systems as Chaos can be seen as the ultimate constructive and destructive force.
Ehh, then a lot of Chinese people are nazis. We love the number 8. I've got 88's in some user names.
Also bonus cause I'm born in 1988
My city has a Chinese grocery store that's just called 88. It's considered a lucky number.
I once had a meth head start a conversation with me in Clash of Clans because of my username.
I go by Klear these days, but originally picked King Klear as a nick, since I liked Shakespeare and Serious Sam. Obviously.
Anyway, there's someone out there taking my name on certain sites, so I use KKlear as a backup. I'm always joking that I don't know what I'd do if KKlear was taken as well...
In my country we have a chain of stores owned by the K-group, the K comes from 'Kesko'. The used to have small, medium and large stores. The small ones were one K stores, mediums were two K stores and the large ones were three K stores. I shit you not, there used to be huge lighted signs outside the large ones that read 'KKK-Supermarket'. You can find pictures of these on the internet still.
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