Tags are more than a mere alias. They embody the emancipating ability of cyberspace, a casting away of the shackles of reality, a ‘you’ simplified, self-engineered and passed through the scope of the internet. Or I could be reading into it a bit too much.

I’m reasonably sure there would have been a thread on the forums pertaining to this question but seeing as a quick search yielded nothing, I’m going to take the liberty of asking it myself.
How did you come to use your current internet alias and why is it you would use this particular combination of letters and/or digits to describe yourself?

I’m sure there are some interesting stories behind these names, but nevertheless, I’ll give you mine as a primer. But as a warning, my personal story is rife with suck. Basically, I stole my name from a maths book about four years ago. One might say that it is ironic or even self-deprecatory seeing as I am kind of mathematically retarded. In all seriousness, I just thought it sounded cool at the time and now I guess I’m kind of stuck with it. The capitalized ‘g’ at the end of the name is something I stole from a friend in order to pay him out, but that too became part of my name over time (although it did serve the secondary purpose of separating myself from the squillions of other trigs out there).



That particular explanation is one of the better ones. I looked up 'trig' in the dictionary and was confonted by a wall of lame.

TRIG
1. neat, trim, smart, or spruce.
2. in good physical condition; sound; well.
3. to support or prop, as with a wedge.
4. trigonometry

At least I didnt name myself out of a fondness for wedges. Mmm. Wedges.



Bah, whatever. I find the longer I keep it, the more attached I get to it, even though I think it may be time for a change.

Enough about me. Anyone else have a better story?