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?

  • db0
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    11 days ago

    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”.

    • The Picard Maneuver
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      1811 days ago

      TIL. I don’t know why I never questioned that or the instance name.

    • Electric
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      1311 days ago

      Holy shit you’re the guy. Keep being based.

    • @Valmond
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      711 days ago

      Are you friends with count zero :-) ?

      Another computer error.

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          11 days ago

          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.

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            Ah right, that did sound familiar been decades since I read that book 😅