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Erik is my real name, and I use it as a nick bcause I like it
I hate it when somebody uses the gay spelling with c -> Eric
On the net, I use the nickname red_erik, which comes from Erik the Red, founder of the first Nordic settlement on Greenland
also, I use the nick pae on freenode, because red_erik and Erik are taken
pae comes from my initials: PAladin Erik

Damn you really like history? :-)

no, but I like the Red + Erik combination

I thought for a long time for the most random combination of letters that would still make some sense (unlike something like libmskduqosa). I decided Zeleanon sounded somewhat mythical. (This was when I was a fairly young person).

Drgb is my real nickname, I use it almost everywhere with variants like DrgbGT and DrgbHawaii (IRCaway nick ).

I choosed this nick when i was 7, cuz i loved the manga "DragonBall" (try to use your imagination...come on....DRaGonBall). I thought it was the best way to use some letters of the word "dragonball"....then I started to chat on IRC and i "developed" some related nicks

THE MATRIX

Well, my name is Tim. I use that username on almost every forum I ever visit (or tm, initials). Since there was obviously already a Tim here, I decided to use "mini". Mainly from inspiration of having an iPod mini box to look at!

But anyway, that's just my mini explanation.

Here's how this one came about.

BlueFusionXL

In late 2004 I was goign to start a web hostign busness (which was quite sucessful for two months!). I was thinking of a cool name. I heard that lots of sites used Fusionx. So I included that. Blue is a cool color so I used it. And X was my favorite letter. I later used L for palces where bluefusionx was already taken.

Well i was'nt really gonna add to this post but i got to thinkin ,,there is a story behind my nick.

Back when i was in school i studied Astrology and greek Mythology,
everyone started calling me starman actually,,but as time went by i got into
other things,puter's being one of them....had a mirc script called something or other "max".

So i took the context from both ends of that and decided to use "Starmax".

and boom here i am what can ya do,,lol.....

I got it from the name of a constellation and shortened it. No prizes for guessing which