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long screen names
Polly Math Started conversation Apr 27, 2002
I'm struck by the length of many screen names here. Are you vying with each other? Finding out what the limit is? Ex DOS users, rejoicing in the freedom from 8-character filenames? I'd be intrigued to know!
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Bob Gone for good read the jornal Posted Apr 27, 2002
I just have one becuse it says evrythin I want it to..and alot of people put in there tituls Like i have I mean I am an ACE and a GURU so they are in my screen anem..you see?
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Bob Gone for good read the jornal Posted Apr 27, 2002
I just have one becuse it says evrythin I want it to..and alot of people put in there tituls Like i have I mean I am an ACE and a GURU so they are in my screen anem..you see?
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Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. Posted Apr 27, 2002
I use mine to advertise. 
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Ste Posted Apr 28, 2002
Mine's the shortest 
I tried out some longer stuff, and an advert or two. But it felt uncomfortable so I changed back. Short names are the new black.
Ste
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Apr 28, 2002
I've had the same name since I joined a few years ago. It expresses a side of me that I'm happy with. That's all.
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Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk Posted Apr 28, 2002
I change my screen name whenever I get a new title, or find something that I really want to express. This is not very often. Still, I like the idea of giving people a number of things to think about from their first impression of you. It's like being able to change your body, but not knowing how to make big muscles or a handsome face.
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GreyDesk Posted Apr 28, 2002
Isn't it a maximum of 255 characters long? Or am I just imagining that.
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26199 Posted Apr 28, 2002
Hmm. Having just tried it, the limit seems to be 127 characters or thereabouts... that was the limit for a loooong line of dots, anyway.
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GreyDesk Posted Apr 28, 2002
See, I told you I was imagining things 
So the maximum length is 2^7 rather than 2^8. Fine, not sure what that means, no doubt some tech will tell us all 
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26199 Posted Apr 28, 2002
Hey, I'm a tech!
I dunno though, 255 would be the obvious one... but I suspect they thought that was too long. And programmers just generally like powers of two
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~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum Posted Apr 29, 2002
At least 26199 has a vocation if not an Appelachian.
Mine's ~jwf~ three letters long.
That makes it easy to type to me if anyone feels like typing to me. It's also my real initials and it's followed by my real name and e-mail address. The rest is advertising. Which is what I do.
peace
~jwf~
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- 1: Polly Math (Apr 27, 2002)
- 2: Bob Gone for good read the jornal (Apr 27, 2002)
- 3: Bob Gone for good read the jornal (Apr 27, 2002)
- 4: Phil (Apr 27, 2002)
- 5: Clive the flying ostrich: Amateur Polymath | Chief Heretic. (Apr 27, 2002)
- 6: Bob Gone for good read the jornal (Apr 27, 2002)
- 7: 26199 (Apr 28, 2002)
- 8: Ste (Apr 28, 2002)
- 9: Cheerful Dragon (Apr 28, 2002)
- 10: Just Bob aka Robert Thompson, plugging my film blog cinemainferno-blog.blogspot.co.uk (Apr 28, 2002)
- 11: GreyDesk (Apr 28, 2002)
- 12: 26199 (Apr 28, 2002)
- 13: GreyDesk (Apr 28, 2002)
- 14: 26199 (Apr 28, 2002)
- 15: ~ jwf ~ scribblo ergo sum (Apr 29, 2002)
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