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[–] box464@kbin.social 69 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I grew up in a very rural area of the southern U.S. back in the 80s. The internet wasn't quite a thing yet, so my window to the world outside my small town was our mailbox, located at Rural Route Box 464. I had pen pal letters, catalogs, magazines and comic books delivered in the mail and it was pure joy to run down the dusty road and check for something new every day.

The internet became my new window to the world, so it just seemed natural to use "Box464" as my address. Even got the domain!

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 14 points 10 months ago

Everyone have super random username but this warm my heart 😊

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[–] Nobody@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I blinded a cyclops and got stuck with it.

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[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 10 months ago (6 children)
[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

6 years ago someone submitted a contact us form with the name Fuckwit McBumcrumble at work and we found it really funny.

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[–] treechicken@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Biology teacher in HS mentioned off-hand that apparently chickens can climb trees. I searched for images online, thought they were funny, and made it my handle.

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[–] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I was a DJ in the 90ies and needed a DJ name. I was looking for one and when I was on my way to Berlin for the Love Parade by train - already half drunk. And the we stopped in the city Jena, in the part Paradies, so the sign Spain "Jena Paradies" and I thought it was the perfect name for me as a DJ.

Then I added another e and dropped the "last name" part and here we are with "Jeena"

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[–] TheSpermWhale@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well, let me tell you a little story

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea…

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[–] MoreOrLess@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I can't deal with absolutes

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[–] HotDogFingies@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] jerome@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] thb_tx@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When ICQ was new, I met a girl online that went by Tina. Cute blonde with a gap in her front teeth. She and I would video chat all day while I worked. Many NSFW video chats from her side.

She named me Tina's Horny Boyfriend. And I lived in Texas.

Sadly, we never met and I lost track of her.

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We chat online for like 2 hours a day, so I guess you can say things are getting pretty serious.

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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

We are a small clique of kobolds who share a Lemmy account in real life. It seemed appropriate.

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Well....

Edit: seems my gif doesn't load?

Edit2:Thanks!

[–] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago

You need an exclamation point at the front, and no spaces in the brackets. Like this:
![](url goes here)

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[–] SGG@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I typed it in. Lemmy said it was available.

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[–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I take pictures and I fart

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[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

For some reason, it wasn't taken. Some people are just lucky, I guess.

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago (1 children)

24 years ago my dad asked me what I wanted my username to be and I was struggling and he said β€œhurry up or I’ll pick something silly like prettybunnys” and type it in and I said β€œok”.

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[–] theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

Came to me in a dream

[–] vynlwombat@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I had a screensaver in the late 90's that made random but grammatically correct sentences. One sentence said "I once was a vinyl wombat"

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I like sea otters. I've spotted them in the water once or twice

[–] souperk@reddthat.com 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My name is kostas, I was 6 years old, and I didn't know how super was spelled.

20 years I wear that spelling mistake as a badge of honour!

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[–] wookiee@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] Truffle@lemmy.ml 10 points 10 months ago

Back when chatrooms were a thing, me as an edgy teenager, wanted something that I thought made me appear dark and mysterious so I chose Der teufel (the devil) as my handle. Most people couldn't read it properly and called me Truffle instead and I embraced it happily.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Someone else took Karl first

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[–] Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I got plastic in my brain 🧠

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[–] LopensLeftArm@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Mine's a Stormlight Archive reference

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[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 9 points 10 months ago

I like crab and i'm easily annoyed.

[–] programmer@programming.dev 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (4 children)

My name's Hiram. I was born in Chihuahua, and raised in Chicago.

Both are home, and both start with "Chi."

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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

When I got to the username prompt Sagat's voice jumped into my head. While I enjoyed SF2 way back in the day I haven't played in probably 25 years, so I'm not exactly sure why I thought of it.

(pic is AI generated, close enough)

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[–] roadkill@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

First time I was prompted for a username, I happened to have a Roadkill Cafe poster on my wall. Couldn't find anything better in my room unless I was going to use "LampBookDumbassCat"

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Character in the world I made up when I was a kid

[–] AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I thought it'd help to be descriptive.

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[–] Sombyr@lemmy.zip 8 points 10 months ago

Trans, wasn't ready to use my new name IRL, or come out to anybody, so I took the word "Somber" and shoved a Y in it because it makes it really similar to my chosen name, so I could feel like I was being called my preferred name every time somebody said it.

Now that I'm this far into my transition it's nothing but a relic, but I like the username anyway.

[–] ThePancake@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Because breakfast is the most important meal.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I'm ready good at killing rocks in Minecraft

[–] Pooptimist@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Well, I try to be an optimist, but life sometimes is just shit

[–] Yrt@feddit.de 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'm really bad at name creation and wanted to try a character in an online game. Who could have guessed the name "try" was already taken... So I turned it around, it sounded alright for a dwarf char and 15 years later it's still my username.

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[–] Betch@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I change usernames every couple years. Betch is just something a couple of my friends started calling me a while ago. It basically became my name until I found something I liked to replace my deadname and it also became my new online identity.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I was in a hurry creating a lemmy account and spewed out the first thing that came to my mind

[–] Secret300@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I played with someone on the psvita that had this name. One day he said see you tomorrow and never logged back on. I took his name now. I only use it for forums tho

[–] Winged_Hussar@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Big fan of the Polish Hussars.

[–] ___@lemm.ee 8 points 10 months ago

I didn’t.

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