Your criminal record gets wiped clean the moment you turn 18, but every idiotic screenname and angst-ridden Xanga remains in perpetuity. GOOD had a few online journalists (including our own Mat “emptyage” Honan) share their first handles, to amusing but mostly harmless results.
So what was your first (or most embarrassing) handle? [GOOD]
Matt
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 8:34 AMMy first handle was CsM. I was a massive X-files fan, and loved the Cigarette Smoking Man mythos.
olearymo
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 11:13 AMohnice!!! man, I should’ve used that one! Very nice.
olearymo
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 8:34 AM‘Palpatine’. It’s still cool! Honest!
geoffc
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 8:50 AMI used to roll with GEECEE – Thought it was a cool make up of my initials…
Until my mates GF (nurse) told me that was the medical abbreviate for gonorrhea/cyphlis
Justind
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 9:18 AMI’m embarrassed to say ‘Voodoo’, but someone else had the same handle at the first lan I went to (but it was so original!), changed to ‘Sardius’. Which I just made up, I hadn’t read Eddings at that point.
death_au
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 9:46 AMmy first handle was death_au.
…it still is.
villainsoft
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 9:47 AMAs embarrassing as it is, OG Doskey. Marrying my early 90′s love of gangsta rap and DOS utilities.
Shameful.
Mike
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 9:59 AMMy name is Mike and my bro’s name is Dan. Mike And Dan became MAD, and we stuck that on the end of whatever game we played :p
e.g. counterstrikemad
yes, extremely gay. shuddup.
Nathan
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 10:57 AMsERAPHIM – still is. I dunno why I decided to do it all in caps except the first letter though.
Troy
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 11:01 AMI was zot, then fraggin_idiot, then flashfreak, then t-roy, now troyx87. Had this one for 4 years now, and its great cos its free on everything. Mainly use it on Gmail & xbox live
Osiris
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 11:23 AMMine was GASH4.
Paddy
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 11:30 AMXbox gamertag:
MuthaCrusher
Unfortunately after using it for 4 yrs, Microsoft contacted me and asked me to change it as it could cause offence.
What a load of crap.
Deb
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 12:14 PMdonuts_02 hahahahhaha yeah..
LyndonL
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 1:03 PMI beat you all.. Mine was SuperWario…..*shameface* In my defence, I was 12 or 13 and was heavily into Mario Kart 64 at that point.
“I’ma Wario – I’ma gonna win – Ah wa wa wa wa!”
PsychoSmiley
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 1:56 PMSame one that I started with.
DanielV2
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 2:54 PM.:splat:. was an amusing handle I once used in CSS. It really described my gameplay ;)
Now a lot of people on steam still call me splat/sploot even though I have a different alias. Confuses the hell out of a lot of people.
shane
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 2:57 PMtoo many to remember.. haha
some lame ass ones and common ones. i think Apoc and voodoo where used at one stage
Chris Clarke
Thursday, June 30, 2011 at 3:32 PMIt was chris_tamer. Shortly after it was changed to gamelab since I decided to copy something that was common with fan site webmasters at the time with an account named after the site. Sometimes I added 2k and 2k2 if I the name was already taken on existing sites. It stuck until 2008.
Lindsay
Friday, July 1, 2011 at 11:26 AMFirst handle I ever used was My Weakness at computer gaming place, thing, and it is still in use for whenever I am playing FPS based games :).
I MAY have been a huge Moby fan :$…