Comment by ๐Ÿ’€ TestUser

Re: "How did you choose your username?"

In: u/jsreed5

I think my user name origin is self-explanatory.

๐Ÿ’€ TestUser

2024-02-16 ยท 2 years ago

9 Later Comments โ†“

๐Ÿฆ wasolili [...] ยท 2024-02-16 at 21:30:

"waso lili" means "little bird" in toki pona and I think was chosen because I was watching the Futurama episode that featured "Little Bird, Little Bird" by Elizabeth Mitchell when I decided to sign up for the toki pona subreddit.

I got older so MrRobinhood was the natural choice. I added the 5 because its my social security

@MrRobinhood5 - you must be really old to have gotten such a low SSN. Congrats on your health and longevity.

๐Ÿค– gamma ยท 2024-02-16 at 22:47:

Random word that sounded good as a username

โ˜ฏ๏ธ leoperbo ยท 2024-02-16 at 23:01:

I didn't choose it, it chose me... Naaah! First three characters of my name and lastname, two first characters of my mother's lastname... It's my nickname everywhere since 1998.

By the way, at that time, it sounded like "Copernicus" to me, funny and smart, like the dog of the Doc Brown in Back to the Future, big deal.

๐Ÿ˜บ taichara ยท 2024-02-17 at 11:48:

I'd like to say there was some great meaning or moment attached, but alas I just made it up in the mid-90s and stuck with it ever since, lol

๐Ÿ€ gritty ยท 2024-02-17 at 14:46:

I made it using diceware, a way to choose passwords and usernames using real dice. I changed it to gritty from the original "gritnot" that diceware came up with.

๐Ÿ€ gritty ยท 2024-02-17 at 14:47:

โ€” diceware

link here

๐Ÿ“ท sjlxndr ยท 2024-02-17 at 17:39:

initials plus surname minus vowels. have used a version with vowels but old Unix systems like <8 char usernames

๐Ÿค– gamma ยท 2024-02-18 at 00:47:

@gritty diceware is a great idea, takes possible bias out of the selection

โ˜ฏ๏ธ johano ยท 2024-09-18 at 02:10:

it's my name in Esperanto ๐Ÿ˜€

Original Post

๐Ÿš€ jsreed5

How did you choose your username?

๐Ÿ’ฌ 18 comments ยท 1 like ยท 2024-02-16 ยท 2 years ago