How did you get your nickname?

[Woz]

Woz removes Kevlar Armour with some relief.

[IrishWonder]

I was still in my twenties when I came up with mine (if that could be used as an excuse). I still wonder if people perceive my handle as pretentious. And I am part Irish so Irish definitely had to be in there.

[Zwart]

I was still in my twenties when I came up with mine ...

Ah so that was 2 or 3 years ago?

[IrishWonder]

Meh I'm a bit older than that

[dogboy]

>IrishWonder(?)
...that's what she said

[IrishWonder]

Funny enough but I just got asked this same question at SMX speakers dinner hmm...

[edo]

Edo is the Japanese pronunciation of my first name (I lived in Japan). He is the super hero inside of me and the only non-derogatory nickname I have.

[bill]

The Edo period is also when Japan shut itself off from the outside world... ;p


I signed in to the SEF with just plain old bill...never expecting to participate much. Then people started asking me about Asian SEO and I just kept signing up to other forums with the same nick. Odd there weren't more bill's out there to snatch up the name. Sometimes I wish I'd picked a more whizzbang moniker like the rest of you.

[Woz]

Ahhh, but then you wouldn't be bill. 

[JasonD]

I use JasonD as it's ermmm my name, and I wanted to move away from a former persona that I had used for many many years in the cracks scene (with a little dabbling in warez) - I was known as CyclopZ back then which was a bastardisation from Cyclops as someone else had taken the nick on Undernet with the S.

Cyclops had been with me since about 12 - 13 years old when i had the world's largest zit at the bridge of my nose leading to it looking like the dominant and only eye.