Who WERE You?

Getting in Touch With the Past

Published on September 1, 2007 By Gideon MacLeish In Blogging

I've had a running thought for awhile, and I thought it might be a good idea to put it out there.

Most bloggers have at least some desire for online social networking. To meet people and establish relationships. Over the past ten years, I personally have been a part of numerous online communities, and I am betting that experience is not unique to me.

I would like to start a message board at some point where people who have lost touch with various online personas can reconnect with their old "friends". I'm sure there would be a market for that, I just don't have the time to get such a project going.

Over my time online, while I've had sub-personas, I have basically had two personas: Rambler and Gideon MacLeish. The MacLeish persona is the current one, so I won't bother there. But for many years on aol (yes, I know! But I had my reasons!) the rambler persona persisted. I began on AOL 3.0 as WbRambler1, and progressed to WisconsinRambler when AOL began allowing 16 characters. I then changed to a number of variations on the Rambler theme, and tried a few spinoff screen names in my day. I doubt there are many people looking for rambler, but if they are, well, here I am.

How about all of you? Any online personas you would like to share?

Comments

ParaTed2k

on Sep 01, 2007

I too started with AOL for reasons beyond me now... ;~D

Back then I was TP72085 (Ted Pam and our Anniversary Date... guess whos idea THAT was. ;~D)

I hung around mostly on an Art Bell fan site called "The Grassy Knoll". I started just to provide some excape from the rigors of paramedic/search and rescue school... but those people really helped me through a lot. I do miss some of them.

Moderateman

on Sep 01, 2007

I was stormbringerlive on Aol {A lmost O n L ine} for 2 years Then when I first moved to Rio Vista in 2002 I was Stormbringer on Frontiernet. NOw I am just Elie with a couple numbers behind and of course Moderateman here.

OckhamsRazor

on Sep 01, 2007

I take it by "persona" you just mean other names we've used?

Wow...tons of them. Many times I'll find a name I've been using is taken, and so I have to invent a new one.

Lessee.

Milo, Spyder, Vanderbeck, Roarkk, Minguin, SteveCB, Phaedrus, and of course, Ock. There are probably more, but that's a long enough list.

Zoologist03

on Sep 01, 2007

For a long while I've just been using various configurations of zoo, zoologist and some numbers.

~Zoo

Deference

on Sep 03, 2007

I was Tom Majors when I worked on the old Armchair Arcade site doing reviews, et al.

Dr Guy

on Sep 04, 2007

Rhett2b or me. I was just me back in the days when the internet was still the domain of geeks and text.

CharlesCS

on Sep 04, 2007

Well some of you may remember me as DJBandit. I use to love the Smokey and the Bandit movies a lot and I love music so it sounded nice to me. I then tried to take a more serious approach when I came to JU so I changed it to my name Charles. Who knows, maybe I'll switch back someday just for fun.

singrdave

on Sep 05, 2007

I can honestly say that I have been "singrdave" since I started online. I was enrolling for AOL and a singing buddy from college suggested that I become "singer dave"... but at the time AOL only allowed for 9 characters. So no space, no "e" in "singer". I have also been Davey-doo or Doofus, but those screen names tend to be taken. So "singrdave" I stay.
And the rest was history.

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