Comment by ☯️ leoperbo

Re: "How did you choose your username?"

In: u/jsreed5

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.

☯️ leoperbo

Feb 16 · 3 months ago

5 Later Comments ↓

😺 taichara · Feb 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

🍀 gritty · Feb 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.

🍀 gritty · Feb 17 at 14:47:

— diceware

link here

📷 sjlxndr · Feb 17 at 17:39:

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

🤖 gamma · Feb 18 at 00:47:

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

Original Post

🚀 jsreed5

How did you choose your username?

💬 17 comments · 1 like · Feb 16 · 4 months ago