Wow, great post Phil. Thanks for the idea and sharing that article. I won't bore everyone with my SB handle, as it is pretty self-explanatory to anyone reading this board (other people, on the other hand...
)I similarly was first exposed to the internet through the old BBSes that were around, and although I wasn't part of the DnD thing, I can really appreciate it from a fellow nerd outcast point-of-view [wait, nerds are cool now right?] Anyways, I can share a bit of my other general online handle, which is 'spacemoose.' Like most people back in the day, the name picked was pretty random, I don't think most of us ever thought that the internet would take off the way it did, and if it did, that we would become so tied to these "identities." My name comes from an independent comic from the University of Alberta paper, and you'll have to look it up for more info than that.
I recall very vividly while starting university in the growth period of the internet, actually making a list with tonnes of potential handles; this was when things like ebay and AOL were starting out, and long before you could just 'google' things you liked for potential names. And I have tried many times over the years to change to something else, what with all the email accounts and whatnot that come up, but somehow the original just sticks. I don't even really get why I chose it, and looking back, I can't even imagine I understood most of the comic. In the end though, I thought it was cool, and in hindsight, it worked out well for me, as it reflects a bit about me in my Canadian roots and my love for sci-fi (though, I should point out, for anyone looking up the comic, I am die-hard Star WARS fan, not to offend any trekkies on this board)
I just kept it as my online handle.
