Logging in ... My first screen name
We all embarrass ourselves as children.
At the tender age of 10, I was for some reason allowed to use a computer and also play Command And Conquer: Red Alert. This was before I had AOL, before I had any need for a username that wasn't my dad's on Compuserve, before I knew about the idea of a username. Suddenly I was told to give some sort of online handle that would declare who I was to the world of people I'd be playing a strategy game against. This is in fact the point at which I made my first internet-based mistake, shortly thereafter making my second in agreeing to play a strategy game on a 56k connection.
I wanted to be cool as hell, striking fear into the heart of my enemies, so I naturally turned to a subject I knew nothing about - drugs. Not so much as having smoked a cigarette, I chose opium, which seemed to be the drug of a badass, even though it was really not that badass of a drug.
Nope.
Either Westwood Studios was smart enough to block drug-based names, or I'd been scooped by some other opium-haver. That accursed man or woman had taken my handle.
I didn't fear though, because clearly I could be just as badass and a rebel, choosing the name opiun.
I played a few games. I got pasted. About 6 months later, somewhere on the internet (mIRC chat, possibly), I mentioned the username.
"Lol, that's a perfume."
This led me to simply stick to edzitron. Most people think it's made up anyway.
