The name you go by

[Helios451]

Just a bit of fun, but where do your monikers on here come from?

I'm Helios451

Helios as in the Greek for the Sun - because all our existence and power comes, one way or another, from our Sun or other suns throughout the history of the Universe (exposes my love of astronomy).

451 as in the temperature in Fahrenheit at which paper spontaneously burst into flame - linking with the power of the Sun, but also informed by my love of Science Fiction.

[Domestic_Ginger]

Parents vet bill which was next to the PC when I had to think of a username.

[[GSV]Trig]

My nickname is Trig, has been for a long time..

[Ttaskmaster]

Just a bit of fun, but where do your monikers on here come from?

My usernames are usually from insults thrown at me during heated arguments...

[ik9000]

My usernames are usually from insults thrown at me during heated arguments...

Tasky in an argument? Never!

[jimbouk]

Wanna hand me that hammer, Jimbo?

James Bond, Goldeneye. Because who didn't enjoy playing Goldeneye on the N64 before they got into Counter Strike and online games?

[Spud1]

For me, it goes back to my very first online game of Team Fortress Classic in 1999.

I remember going round to a friend's house as he had just had ISDN installed, and we were so excited to get online with a ping of less than 150ms and play some games. My mates last name was "Turnbull" and often was called "turnip", so we ended up with variations of vegetables - Turnip, Spud and Cabbage (his brother). I was just "spud" then, but a year or so later I signed up to "Planetarion" and "spud" was taken, so I became "Spud1" and it stuck ever since.

I still remember the silky smooth ISDN connection and how big of a jump it was...not having to lead your sniper shots by an inch was a game changer

[g8ina]

G8INA is my radio ham callsign, has been since 1973.

Tangram (one of my other online personas) is from 1981 when I was working in Saudi, all I listened to day and night was Tangram by Tangerine Dream, used to drive my roomies mad

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

I have no clue how I came up with mine.....I might have been drunk?? Almost could have been a Moostake.

[DanceswithUnix]

I seem to be one of the few people that enjoyed the film "Dances With Wolves". But I don't work with wolves, I work on embedded Unix machines

My avatar is entirely unrelated, and comes from: http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html because it made me laugh.

[ik9000]

I seem to be one of the few people that enjoyed the film "Dances With Wolves". But I don't work with wolves, I work on embedded Unix machines

My avatar is entirely unrelated, and comes from: http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html because it made me laugh.

I thought the film was alright.

[Phage]

I read this when I was a complete jerk in my mid-20s. Now I'm a complete jerk in my mid-50s

http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/metrophage/

[Ttaskmaster]

Tasky in an argument? Never!

Another time, another forum, where someone who knew me personally and had been under my command at one stage decided to get me renamed.
I have yet to actually change my name to HardcoreTory, though, and probably won't until I actually do vote for them.

I seem to be one of the few people that enjoyed the film "Dances With Wolves".

Few, but you are not alone.

[Output]

I just wanted something as short as possible, easy to remember, and as close to tech-related as possible. I was thinking of 'I/O' (Input/Output) with this one.

I seem to be one of the few people that enjoyed the film "Dances With Wolves". But I don't work with wolves, I work on embedded Unix machines

I've never seen it, nor do I plan to, but I was aware of its title so liked your play on the name.

[Bonebreaker777]

Early teenage years, stronger grip than most of my peers due to the work I was helping my dad with. Funny enough I always started a handshake soft and adjusted the force to match but when some people started to squeeze as hard as they could, because reasons, I just squeezed back.

This eventually became a nickname, given me by those able to speak English (which I was not back then) and stayed with me when going to LAN parties and/or playing online.

[Galant]

Another gaming origin here. Back over in Tucson, Arizona, some friends were throwing a Halo party - original Halo, on Xbox, networked locally. I needed to come up with a player name (because you can't just use your actual name, right?), and Gallant is what I came up with. I don't remember what inspired it. I did, however, misspell it.