🕸️ Pip 🕷️Jan 23, 2025

What is the origin of your username/nickname?

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What is the origin of your username/nickname? - SLRPNK

This has probably been asked before but I wanted to add another layer/an alternative. So, I ask, where did your username/pseudonym/nickname originate from? What’s the meaning behind it? Or alternatively, which is the most creative/interesting nickname origin you have come across?

Show threaddb0Jan 23, 2025
Mine stands for “Divided by Zer0”, based on the programming error “division by zero”. Amusingly, people keep assuming it stands for “database zero” or “dragonball zero”.
Show threadValmondJan 23, 2025

Are you friends with count zero :-) ?

Another computer error.

Show threaddb0Jan 23, 2025
Hah no never heard of them :D
Show threadValmondJan 23, 2025

From Willian Gibsons (the guy who coined ‘Cyberspace’) book Count Zero, if you put zero on the interrupt on address zero you’ll just get stuck in an neverending cycle.

And it was the chosen nick of Bobby in the book.

Show threaddb0
Ah right, that did sound familiar been decades since I read that book 😅
Jan 23, 2025 at 4:30pmWeb