Posted on 01/09/2015 12:16:22 AM PST by eastforker
I have been here going on 15 years. I have seen many freepers come and go, including myself a time or two. I have always retained my handle yet I see names dated from way back when I do not remember ever seeing back then. Is it possible to change your handle and yet keep your sign up date?
Obola’s sig is easy to identify, it’s just like the Zodiac Killer’s mark.
Heh. And indicates the value of a dollar. ;)
Test of date...
>> I have always retained my handle
Know what you mean; I’ve found that as I grow older it’s impossible to get rid of my two handles. Maybe if I drank less beer... nah.
Yes.
I’m sure that mine gets some people to wondering- in fact, my “Barak” is stolen from a character in a series of books. I started using it as an online handle in local BBS’s about 20 years ago. Danged if I’m gonna change it for that useless POS in the White House.
tri-fokkr isn't taken.
No, I have tried.
I have a name that goes back to 98
However I do not use it. I cannot get the date appended to current name.
That was one of the best ever.
I had another name here for a couple of years or so, going back to '97 (I think, if I am remembering this right, for I was using a beta version of WIN 98 in '97 when first accessing FR) ..but then lost access to an email account where I kept the password stashed (which I would copy/paste from, since in the old days a person could not change their password).
Oh well.
The other name was too much of a clue as to my identity anyway, so this stoopid handle I've been using at least leaves few bread crumbs by which I could be tracked/traced by amateurs.
I got banned for...wait for it....calling islam a gutter religion!
Nowadays I'd get a medal.
Original sign up date March 10, 2001.
That date is seared, seared I say, into my memory.
Remember when if you started an HTML tag and did not close it, it went on forever until a subsequent poster closed it? Fun times back then. So young, so naive.
Thailand?
;)
I was thinking something along the same lines...
As for the thread, I had mine changed...
Got me some of them there new fangled “capital letters”.
We’ve been here too long. ;-)
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