Origins of nicks

WarklanTD · Postby **WarklanTD** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:49 am

Back in the day of Warcraft TCing (Total Conversion), their was a site known as warclan.org where you could get wardraft and what not to modify stuff...anyways...I decided to call myself warclan then decided to change it a bit by making the c a k. Then after boring myself with Warcraft, (Played it for hours) I played Starcraft and made "The Dreaded" clan. Put the two together and you got my name. Rather boring story really =)

Phydaux · Postby **Phydaux** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 3:09 pm

Quote: from Kyrel2 on 3:00 am on Jan. 30, 2003[br]I now go by Alt_255 which is a ASCI code from DOS. <God I used to love DOS>

Windows uses it too, and it's ASCII (the American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

Anyhoo.... mines easy Phydaux = Fido, Why? no reason I just play with words (and letters).... I'm also know about as psphilbourge (totaly made up), and Mr. Pibb (and American drink that is exactly the same as Dr.Pepper)

Zdzichu · Postby **Zdzichu** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 4:35 pm

I'm from Poland so I choose as a nick polish name.Sorry if I make mistakes.

Darksun · Postby **Darksun** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:13 pm

For those interested (which I doubt), my name comes from a long, boring, unfinished and frankly crap story I wrote years ago. An evil government rules, and a rebel group forms called SUNSTRIKE - don't ask why - It was a nice sunny day when I was sitting with my notepad probably. So anyway, the government started Operation DARKSUN to counter the actions of SUNSTRIKE. Oh, and there was a giant part lion, part eagle, part rat in the story too.

PHREAK76 · Postby **PHREAK76** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 9:18 pm

Quote: from Deepsmeg on 6:35 pm on Jan. 28, 2003[br]Where do you think other peoples nicks came from.
This'll be funny...
Phreak76: because Phreak - Phreak75 got banned...

Mine was not from this phreak75 or what not i have a game called state of emergency for ps2 and there is a person called freak so i thought oh fine i think i will use that so i did and i added the 76 on the end

bionic sheep · Postby **bionic sheep** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 10:12 pm

No real reason. Just sounded . . . right, I suppose.

Postby **Icepick** » Thu Jan 30, 2003 11:05 pm

Quote: from Darksun on 8:13 pm on Jan. 30, 2003[br]For those interested (which I doubt), my name comes from a long, boring, unfinished and frankly crap story I wrote years ago. An evil government rules, and a rebel group forms called SUNSTRIKE - don't ask why - It was a nice sunny day when I was sitting with my notepad probably. So anyway, the government started Operation DARKSUN to counter the actions of SUNSTRIKE. Oh, and there was a giant part lion, part eagle, part rat in the story too.

Darksun is also the name of an AD&D world

Postby **NeoThermic** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 2:40 am

Well, my nickname is quite simple:

Neo is latin for nearly or almost

Thermic can be twisted to make fire [think latin again - Thermic is heat, and heat can come from a fire...]

This basicaly described the enthusiasim that I had inside me when I first started to program computers to do what ever I wanted...

...and the name stuck...
...and now I have both yahoo and hotmail e-maill addreses with my name [with out numbers as well, how unique]

Spectere_uplink · Postby **Spectere_uplink** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 6:33 am

Quote: from Phydaux on 9:09 am on Jan. 30, 2003[br]
Quote: from Kyrel2 on 3:00 am on Jan. 30, 2003[br]I now go by Alt_255 which is a ASCI code from DOS. <God I used to love DOS>
Windows uses it too, and it's ASCII (the American Standard Code for Information Interchange)

Hmm, don't know why me (in my extreme pickiness) didn't rag on this before, but anything above character 127 isn't defined in the ASCII character set. Characters 128-255 were added in by IBM.

So there.

Stewsburntmonkey · Postby **Stewsburntmonkey** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 6:42 am

Although the extension set is often refered to as the Extended ASCII Codes. :)

Spectere_uplink · Postby **Spectere_uplink** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 6:51 am

Hmm...I've never heard of it referred to as that. OTOH, I do have an older book on the subject (Peter Norton's "Inside the IBM PC and PS/2, Third Edition", printed in 1990 -- rather "new" if you ask me

).

Jabberwocky · Postby **Jabberwocky** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:10 am

JABBERWOCKY
Lewis Carroll
(from Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, 1872)

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Spectere_uplink · Postby **Spectere_uplink** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 7:14 am

I used to like that poem before my AP English 9 teacher had the class analyze it. I hate analyzing poetry...it ruins the whole effect of it.

Darksun · Postby **Darksun** » Fri Jan 31, 2003 2:08 pm

Quote from: Icepick on 10:05 pm on Jan. 30, 2003
Darksun is also the name of an AD&D world

I know now, but I didn't know at the time

It came out of the void known as the imagination

Phydaux · Postby **Phydaux** » Sat Feb 01, 2003 12:38 pm

Quote: from Spectere on 5:51 am on Jan. 31, 2003[br]Hmm...I've never heard of it referred to as that. Â OTOH, I do have an older book on the subject (Peter Norton's "Inside the IBM PC and PS/2, Third Edition", printed in 1990 -- rather "new" if you ask me ).

hmmm... QBasic(1992) refers to the EXTENDED ASCII code, tho it notes the actual characters could be different on different computers.

Gotta move with the times Spectere

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