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what does your nick mean ? - anyweb - 2007-07-10
hi all,
well you all have a nick either on IRC or here on the forums,
most of us pick something that isn't our real name for obvious reasons, but why did you pick it and what (if anything) does it mean ?
to help you along, i'll explain where 'anyweb' (my nick) came from..
a long long time ago when the intraweb/internet was being formed (oh ok, around 1995) I was getting online using netscrape and doing some odd-jobs for people,
The 'jobs' were what I was interested in at the time were web-design and all things related (sparetime as I already had a computer job) so I did a few websites and made some nice money. While I was at it I thought about putting together a logo/website etc but only got started and never did anything (apart from create a few photoshopped 'anyweb' logos), however what I did come up with was..........
anyweb
which was short for 'anyweb site' design you need (or something like that)
so that's where I got/made anyweb from !
now tell us about your nick :)
The astute amongst you will notice that I also use the following nicks > webany (duh, it's anyweb reversed) and any_web and web_any (if i'm on multiple computers, which funnily enough i usually am)
cheers
anyweb
what does your nick mean ? - Olin - 2007-07-10
moveax - Intel CPU instruction 'mov' and the 32-bit CPU register EAX. I used to code a lot of assembly and it just kind of stuck.
:-0
what does your nick mean ? - Ritter - 2007-07-10
Mine is german...
Ritter means knight,.. I also am know to use:
edler rittersmann
what does your nick mean ? - SxanRR - 2007-07-10
Way back in the good ol' days, when the intarwebz was still like the wild west, I quite enjoyed some activities which
included the use of apps such as nmap and the like...Scan applications. Given the time and my younger age, it was
in all interests to be "eLiTe", and everyone knows you can't be fully l33t without an x in your name somewhere (lol).
Hence: Sxan
The RR comes from riding motorcycles, I was riding a CBR900RR at the time.
Hence: SxanRR
what does your nick mean ? - hijinks - 2007-07-10
hijinks is a nick my next door neighbor said I should use when we signed up for AOL to look at porn when we were 13-14.. It stuck on IRC and then I had a lot of hacker newbies keep msging me all day long so I typed two random characters one day and jY stuck.. its been like that for around 10 years now
what does your nick mean ? - znx - 2007-07-10
Mine has no real deep meaning. In real life my name is Mark, however there was a couple of Mark's at my age of school, so I would up getting called "Mak" (sounds like Mac). If you take mak and rot13 it, you get znx. The reason for the using rot13 is that I was coding a function to do just that at the time. I have gone by various others but znx / znxster is by far the one that has stuck.
what does your nick mean ? - anyweb - 2007-07-10
Quote:Mine has no real deep meaning. In real life my name is Mark, however there was a couple of Mark's at my age of school, so I would up getting called "Mak" (sounds like Mac). If you take mak and rot13 it, you get znx. The reason for the using rot13 is that I was coding a function to do just that at the time. I have gone by various others but znx / znxster is by far the one that has stuck.
so what would you get if you ROT13 mark ?
what does your nick mean ? - anyweb - 2007-07-10
Quote:Mine is german...Ritter means knight,.. I also am know to use:
edler rittersmann
but why did you pick it ? are you german in some way ?
what does your nick mean ? - bofh - 2007-07-10
Here's source of nick
[/url][url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/]http://www.theregister.co.uk/odds/bofh/
And of course anyone who has EVEr interacted with me knows I picked it because that's exactly how I act.
what does your nick mean ? - xDamox - 2007-07-10
I use the Nickname xDamox because the damn thieves [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_mad.gif[/img] on IRC seem to have taken "Damo" :( which is my
Nickname, as it short for Damian :)