Explain your username.

[Frodebro]

I can’t even begin to imagine!…

It was tricky. I opened one thread to discuss what was going on, and told everybody that I was going to allow them to talk about it in that thread only, as it was obviously of huge historical importance and would be impossible to not acknowledge. It was emotionally charged, but for the most part it was manageable.

We did lose one member that day, who was trapped in one of the towers. Mike Gould. All these years later, I still remember his name. I guess that's a good thing (that he has not been forgotten)...

 

[Seamus OReally]

My kids were building MOOs and MUDs through the inky blackness of the early text-only Internet. And I was on The WELL (which predates the kind of web-based nastiness we expect these days), on my trusty Atari STe, with its whopping four megabytes of RAM.

 

[XTRXTR]

My first forum was Usenet Google Groups alt.Guitar.Amps or AGA, those guys were brutal. No rules, no moderators, politics, religion, hate speech, racism it was a free for all. No longer open for posts but can still read old info there.

 

[iblive]

ETSG for me. Had just purchased a used G400 and just seemed to be the right thing to do. Today, I don’t even check in any more. It was thru ETSG where @WavMixer invited me to come hang out in TTR.

 

[Valves]

Seamus is Irish for James, which is my name. I used to write and produce radio drama and comedy as the ad hoc leader of the Renaissance Radio Theater, and those clowns used to call me Seamus, so I just added a punny faux Irish last name. I’ve had a bunch of pseudonyms… Pete Mosse, Dr. Did E. Wahdiddy…

Shem the postman.
Oh really?
But...
“Shem is as short for Shemus as Jem is jokey for Jacob.”
I already like you S.
But do you really want to be the postman?

>> "I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about who is the Postman and who is the Penman."

Don't blame me mate, you started it.

 

[Valves]

I always use my real name going back to Usenet. It makes me think before posting. It did cause me some problems back on Usenet when some deranged freak on Usenet thought I was some kind of terrorist because I ran my own server and had 500 GB of storage. He was in the UK. He called the RCMP to check on me. They did then told him they'd report him to the UK police if he continued harassing me.

>> going back to Usenet
Boomers are so stupid. They don't understand the internet.
>> going back to Usenet
Spork Spork Spork
Boomers are so stupid...
Who do you think built it?
Don''t bully: I'm just ranting like a boomer.

 

[Valves]

I wish I had an even mildly interesting story to tell about mine, but I'll try these:

Mine is a reference to the fact that I graduated non compos mentis from Public School 37.

No, that's not it.

It's a reference to the fact that I was the world's 37th purchaser of PlayStation.

No, that's not it.

How about when I was 37, I knew Paul Smith before he became Paul Reed Smith?

No, that's not it.

Pete Seeger / Paul Simon / Patti Smith / Paul Stanley still owe me $37?

No, that's not it.


It is, in fact, an important part of an important Book to me.






(But I did actually enjoy getting an opportunity to use the phrase "non compos mentis." )

>> non compos mentis
I know that Latin phrase.
It means 'please do not turn my mind into compost'.