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So if you are anything like me you sometimes wonder where a person gets the user name that they have in the forums. I have found that sometimes there is an interesting story behind those internet identities.

I will get things started with my story. When I was 12 my dad took his old ford truck off the road because the engine was tired and it needed a paint job. It was a 1970 Ford F-100 with a 390 cid and a 4 speed tranny. We started restoring it together and got it almost done before he died. Of course it had a lot of sentimental value to me, so I got a friend of my dads to help me finish it before I turned 16, and it became my first car.

It was so awesome to drive that thing and know that my dad and I built it together. It was 100 times cooler than any of the fancy cars the other kids in school had, and it was all mine.

Of course being a stupid teenager, I did the bonehead thing and wrecked it when I was racing an 86 Mustang Boss. I was doing pretty good until that corner, and then that tree. I guess it couldn't handle as well as the muscle car.

So that is my story, would anyone else care to share?

Mine is a combo of my real name and my telephone area code. I'm also a fan of the famous surf shop also.

Well, it all started way back in the early 90s, can't remember exactly what year, 92, or 93 give or take a year. I was about 9 or 10, and got my first modem, a 2400 baud! Installed that thing into my Tandy 1000, and got connected to a BBS, first question it asked me was for my username. Well I thought long and hard about it for about... 2 minutes... and concluded I would use a combination of my name Matt, and my favorite animal, Cats. So MatCat was born! I have used my handle ever since, it is as much a part of me as my real name is.

Man, I miss those days! Before most people even knew what the internet was. I loved the BBS scene so much. I realize that the majority of people on here will have no clue what I am talking about, and that is OK, just know that it was THE thing before the internet caught on.

So are you the inspiration for that 80's movie "War Games"? Man that is a blast from the past!

That movie was so out of touch from reality it isn't even funny. One of my all time favorite computer movies Hackers, also very unrealistic in the graphics department, but a lot of the lingo they use is fairly real, to some degree anyway.

I honestly don't even know how I got interested in computers!

I used to work in a television station and discovered the movie Videodrome not long after seeing The Ring. It soon became a favorite of mine.

Also I posted a lot on a videogame forum so Videodrome seemed appropriate.

The first computer I purchased for myself was a Tandy 1000. I remember that the 10 MEG drive cost something like $250. My first computer, however, was a Radio Shack Color Computer. It had a whole 4k (as in 4,096 bytes) of memory. You hooked it to the tv and it saved programs on an audio-cassette recorder. Diskettes didn't come out for about 3 or 4 years after that.

As for BBS's, I ran a 4-line BBS out of my home. It was absolutely amazing to be able to chat with 4 people in real-time back then.

As for my name, I'm a Stephen King fan. My name is a combination of the freaky, red-hed kid from Children of the Corn (Malaki) and the year I graduated high-school (1986). I had to add the '86' to my name after the name Malaki started being used more and more.

I have been fighting it for years! I always hated it when people would call me Mr Bill, Even though I love the Saturday Night Live skits. In the end I decided if you can't beat em, join em!

Hawk was the old man CB handle and all his friends use to call me Little Hawk or Hawk Jr..

I think my mother came up with mine....

Yep, had to be or else I would be named "Knothead".

What kind of BBS did you run? I used to run a 2 node TriBBS.

Because my last name begins with a "K", and I'm always cranky.

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Renegade

Can't forget that those were the days of all-day installations of a new game. They came on 3 1/2" diskettes and a good game (Wolfenstein) used about 30 of them.

Hell I remember when a 1MB file was a 24 hour download event !

I am confused :confused:

Are we talking first computer owned?

Commodore 64 :clap:

~or~

Forum name origin/meaning?

dobry= good in Polish/Russian ... good 4 u

I have had this internet name for longer than most on this board have been shaving :lol:

"Moose" tends to be taken most everywhere. It is my youngest sons nickname. I added Bloo to it (for "boy") because Bloose just doesn't sound right at all...

I don't no. It might come back to me...but right now I forget why. :rofl:

Well mines just my name..... first computer was however an Apple IIc

First letter of my first name "R"

First letter of my last name "R"

My old dispatcher at Allied gave me the nickname.

mike and I am a fan of

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...0Earnhardt.jpg

Mine is left over from my days as a crack dealer.

Exit 319, I-90 in Montana. Jackson Creek Rd.

I thought it was Orange TX guy......but what do I know.

Mine is my CB handle Ironeagle. The 2006 is the Year my Divorce from the Ex became final I got Engaged and Remarried. I kinda consider it to be my Phoneix year there.

Oh. Uuuuuuuh. Yeah...I guess I forgot! :p

Mines just my first name and abbreviated last name Bob B'ski, full name is in my signature, it's a handle that's served me well for many years. :) Using my real name keeps me in line from time to time.:p

If I had to guess I would say you live in Texas and may have worn an orange apron at one time or another. Am I even close?

Mine is 'cause I liked the long waits for permits to move, the thrill of being 12'6" wide going through Chicago at 8:00 a.m., steering with my knee while getting directions into the place I'm headed, and grossing 125K most of the time...

Other than that, can't really tell why I use that handle.:confused:

Young Jezzy is that you??

Uuuummmmm....Yeah! Yeah! That's it! I wore something orange once! They confiscated the mask though!

Stop the thread!!!!!!You were a dj? I am picturing you as Christian Slater from "Pump Up The Volume".

No, You are from Texas, you are a guy and you use that fake spray on tan that makes people look orange.

Your all wrong, Orangetxguy is simply an oompa loompa whom moved to Texas after the factory shutdown because it couldn't operate at a profit anymore.

I was thinking more like McLovin........

Sorry but I AM MCLOVIN!

my username should be easy to figure out -

1. i am a mother

2. that how my kids call or rather scream for me.

"mommee!!!!" which is usually followed by - he/she is bothering me or did this to me....and it goes on.

:lol::lol::lol:

Rave? I havent been to a rave in..........ever.