phantom Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 I enjoy reading all the entries in the forum. I really like the unique and individual names used by everyone. My question is...how did you come up with your "screen name", "code name", "team name", or "cache name" (or whatever you want to call it)? Mine just seemed to drift from one techno gadget to another. In the olden days of the CB, my "handle" was PHANTOM. THen it migrated to screen names in chat rooms, forums and instant messaging. It just seemed right to continue to use it in geocaching. Just curious. phantom KB5YUE "Free your mind" - The Matrix Link to comment
+Gloom Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 ...mine, read my profile. Kinda similar to your story, once started the name just migrated to whatever activity currently has my attention. ---- Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together. Link to comment
+yrium Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 There was a long thread previously on this topic. that has a bunch of Handles and there meanings. --- yrium --- Link to comment
TripleMCachers Posted June 7, 2002 Share Posted June 7, 2002 My kids are Morgan, Madison and Max...we usually call them the Three Munchkinteers or MnMnM's... Since this is a family endeavour, I left my standard screen name/pen name/handle at the door. Holly Selden Link to comment
+Team Dralasites Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Because we look like this: Link to comment
Geo Quest Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 I used to be known as "Cybeq". The name comes from a particular brand of automation I work on. But it seemed wrong to copy a company name for this so I just made up Geo Quest on the spur of the moment. I think it sucks but I guess it makes a better gecaching handle than Cybeq. "There's no need to be afraid of strange noises in the night. Anything that intends you harm will stalk you silently." Link to comment
+Team Hoijong Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 My screen name is "irresisti" it has been for a couple of years now.. Before i went by the screen name "Simply Irresistible" but after a while i thought the name didn't fit anymore i had to find something more original and i just cut of the word "Simply" and shorted irresistible to "irresisti" Thats where how i got the name.. I resist I irresisti Don't mather how far you get from home, you will always get back there to get out again Link to comment
Johnny Cache & naSTASHa Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 We wanted something specific to geo caching, hence the name "Johnny Cache & naSTASHa. Link to comment
OFF RODE Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 When I got this plate (see avitar) it just seemed like the name to use. "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." Yogi Berra Link to comment
+Jamie Z Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Uh, mines my name. I've used screen names in the past, but came to the conclusion that I'd rather people call me by my name. Like if I were at a party, I wouldn't meet someone and say "Hi, My name's GeoSearcher." Way back in the day when I first started getting online with my Commodore 64 and BBS's, I initially used the screen name "Jamie." After a while I wanted something a little more spicy, I decided to go with Terminator (yeah, like that fits my personality ) so, I lightened it up by changing it to "Term'nator" which was a reference to the terminal programs we used on the Commie to dial up the BBS's. Jamie Link to comment
purring alien Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 I'm a cat lovin' UFO nut! I wanted to be alien kitten, but there already is an alien puppy on these forums, and I'm kind of old to be called kitten...so purring alien was what I came up with. I like it. Link to comment
blind-dog Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Stole the name from a fictional blues player. Started using it in chat rooms and free e-mail accounts; and carried over into geocaching Link to comment
+GeoVamp Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 When my step kids where little I made up this caracter called BOB I used to draw it out for them it looked like my avatar but it didn't look like a vampire.As they grew older BOB changed to Vampirebob and now he looks like a vampire.A few years ago I took it as my web address.Then when I started geocaching it evolved into Geovamp I would follow my GPS to the gates of Hell if it pointed that way. Link to comment
+KYtrex Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 I'm from Kentucky and my first GPSr was a basic Etrex..................... KYtrex Link to comment
+Pepper Posted June 8, 2002 Share Posted June 8, 2002 Well my Maiden name is Pepper, and my husband IS a SuperGenius. His coworkers gave it to him shortly after he arrived in CA for his new job. It stuck and we use it for everything, so it just seemed right to include in our geocaching. Team SuperGenius Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Link to comment
+Lost & Found Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Lost & Found.. becuz thats how we got a gps in the first place. We got hopelessly lost while hunting. What I do today is Important - I spent a day in my life doing it. Link to comment
Dru Morgan Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 I am a web host. I have been designing web pages since before the dot com explosion. I now teach web design at a vocational school. I have a small company that hosts many sites. Also, I am a Christian. I like wordplay and one day came up with a play on words that would describe those two. Actually, Heavenly Host is a catholic term, which I am not, but the play on words is still there. It is another way of letting people know about my faith without forcing anything on people. Sort of a 'If you know it, you'll recognize it, but if you don't, you won't' kind of thing. I used to use drum as a login/chat name, as my name is Dru Morgan and that was the first initial of my last name. I was with an ISP called loop.com for a while. My email was drum@loop.com and people thought I was a musician into drum loops. Everywhere that cache is found, Bound to Cover Just a Little More Ground. -Dru Morgan www.theheavenlyhost.com/dru Link to comment
+tjcouch Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 I just used my name when I started. The wife and I were trying to think up a creative caching name- but before we knew it we had found about 20 caches and did not want to change mid stream. Cheers! Link to comment
+seneca Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Seneca You may not agree with what I say, but I will defend, to your death, my right to say it!(it's a Joke, OK!) Link to comment
Syn Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Well I used my name waynepdx when I first came on here...but am in the process of changing it to Syn... Originally in bbs days I was known as Syndicate...then I shortened it to Syn Sin Then Just syn...that is why I am using syn aka waynepdx. Letting people get used to the change so they dont go and start deleting my found logs when they read the log book and say who is Syn and why has he never signed the logbook. Link to comment
GeoStars Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 I thought it sounded a bit presumptuous but they like and what the heck, it's a family thing for us. They're big-time into Star Wars, I suggested something Geo-related and this is what they came up with. GeoMedic - team leader of GeoStars Link to comment
+Criminal Posted June 10, 2002 Share Posted June 10, 2002 Mine is from my time as a Flight Engineer on C-141B StarLifter Special Ops, I also worked in SO supply and we were able to "get things" as needed. I just kept it. The symbol is something else altogether...... ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>< What is the price of experience, do men buy it for a song, Or wisdom for a dance in the street................. Link to comment
+The GeoGadgets Team Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 I guess our team name is pretty obvious... We love GADGETS: PDA's, digital cameras, ham radio gear, and my home-based work computer is loaded with all kinds of gadgets for my business. When GPSR's came out it was a natural progression to get one and find an excuse to use/play with it, even though I found many excuses through the years NOT to buy one... then Geocaching came along. I was trying to think of a GC-related domain name and viola! GeoGadgets Team was born. In the CB radio and BBS days of my wild and crazy youth I was the 'Queen Of Hearts', but as I get older that name just doesn't FEEL as appropriate as it did when I was in my early twenties and childless. Now, I live in the Redwoods and I have always had redhair... RedwoodRed fits better, even if I am commonly mistaken for a male of the species in chat rooms and the places where I trade porn... just kidding!. Ask Steak N Eggs sometime how he got his handle... now THAT is an interesting tale! ---------- Lori aka: RedwoodRed KF6VFI "I don't get lost, I investigate alternative destinations." GeoGadgets Team Website Comics, Video Games and Movie Fansite "Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda, Jedi Master from Star Wars - Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back Link to comment
Case_198 Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 When I first got on the 'net my AOL username was Casel98. Casel is my middle name and 98 was the year. I used to chat in a chatroom for a hiphop radio show based in Florida. Whenever the DJ would read the names of everyone in the chatroom he thought the L was the number 1. = Case one-ninety-eight. I got tired of correcting him, so I officially changed it. Plus, I think Case_198 sounds cooler! ==Case P.S. I really need to change my avatar..... Link to comment
CourtneyP Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Like Jamie, mine's just my name. For the same reasons... I prefer people to just refer to me as me. Just a personal preference. Yeah, I know, I know, it's bland. Better than 1LuVju5t1n69. Link to comment
+Mudfrog Posted June 12, 2002 Share Posted June 12, 2002 Ive been known as the Mudfrog for years now because of my liking for 4x4s and playing in the mud. Its been my CB handle for years and yes, i still have a citizens band radio in all of my vehicles. Chicken is a little pet name for my wife of course and shes also had that for years. Hhmmmmm, just couldnt figure out how to add Geo to either one of them and make them sound right! Link to comment
+majicman Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 Mine comes "initially" from my initials (pun impuned) - Mark Anthony Johnson. I added the IC when I was in the Air Force as a 32172Q (F4E Radar Technician.) I used to sign the inside of the F4E Radomes as "Radar fixed by MAJIC! - Majicman 1976 (or whatever year.) Ever since then, I have been majicman (The IC originally stood for "Incorpoated Corporation" as an Oxymoron to go with the intentional misspelling of "magic".) Anal-retentive and verbose... Always trade UP in both quantity and quality and Geocaches will be both self-sustaining and self-improving! --majicman Link to comment
+nscaler Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 I have no idea where I got mine. "Pay no attention to the man behind the screen" nscaler "Anyone not here, raise your hand!". Link to comment
METEOR MANIACS Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 METEOR MANIACS Easy! This one is in honor of the Leonids Meteor Storm of 2001! WOW!!! We were seeing about 300 meteors in a ten minute time frame at our highest observation time. Couldn't look anywhere without seeing a meteor. We had 11 people observing! Some incredible exploding fireballs too! They were the coolest! Plan to go out this year for another good show. Link to comment
Lt Stryker Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 mine comes from a nickname my friends had for me for a while Link to comment
+Shuckymomo Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 Mine came from my cousin, who had used it previously for something. I took it over and I use it everywhere on the 'net. Link to comment
Keystone Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 There's a more recent, active thread than this one, bumped from 2002. Closing thread. Link to comment
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