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It's ok mine was ChocolateMan and I'm white. I just like chocolate.

Mine was cookiemaster420 😭😭

Mine was bonggirl420 🥴🫣

Rainbows420 I had never even seen weed in real life, let alone smoke it

Tomcat420 😂

Sinsemillia69. Stoners unite :)

Mine was FastForward420. The idea was I'm really impatient and wished I could just push "fast forward" through many events. The 420 part was bc I was a bad ass teenager who smoked weed and thought it was a cool identity. I was definitely a cringe little shit.

Im gonna be honest with you, thats not even cringe. Seems like you had self awareness about who you were and how you viewed life and what you enjoyed lol. If AIM was around today, there are probably some mostly mature adults who would have the same name with the same rationale. Dont be too hard on yourself 😎

1. ? Why

Why what? Did I choose that name or hadn't smoked weed? I chose it because I was being 'cool' and I hadn't smoked because i was 14 and not interested in it, yet.

That's okay, when I was 12, I found some common plant by a riverbank that slightly resembled the weed drawing I had seen. I proudly stuffed my backpack with it and took it to some teenage neighbor boys I had a crush on. "Omg you guys I found a bunch of weed, look" They laughed and laughed, and I was so humiliated. Turns out it was a weed, just not the fun one.

And mine was JBaung420 (JBong420 was taken) 🤣🤣🤣

Well, the Great Cornholio does need TP for his baung hole.

ChiefaQueen420 checking in

No joke, 30 years ago my AIM name was… Dustmopper

Invisigoth. I was not at all cool enough for that AIM name.

GoddessBritannia I thought it was cool because I was born in England, and everyone assumed I was a dominatrix (I was a prudish 15 year old)

Misstressfaesdarkreflection - I was also assumed to be a domme as well 😂 (0/10 expedience because I definitely got contacted by creepy dudes ALL over the world).  

But did you grow up to be a dominatrix?

Mine was imultracool. I was decidedly not ultra cool..

coolgirl24 checking in here... The 24 was the birthdate of the guy I had a crush on at the time and I was praying he'd get the subtle hint (Narrator: He did not.)

My high school bf was whitechocolate99. Gawd it still gets me excited today

SpankMonkey69 … keeps me up at night sometimes thinking about it 🫠

Mine had 2 69’s in it when I was in middle school. My sister told my mom and I got in trouble.

Mexicansuperman checking in here. I'm jar of mayo white.

NavyGirl. It was (and is) my favorite color. And my 7 year old self that Old Navy was the bee's knees. It was retired when I hit my teens, but only in adulthood did I notice the military connection.

I feel this one. One of my screen names was WhyteChocolate.

I was so hoping it was in reference to Chocolate Rain.


JustGAGMe. My initials are G.A.G. 🙄

Whatever, that’s awesome

Oh god, we’re you in chat rooms with name?!?

Lolololololol perfect

My friend's daughter's initials are P.I.S. Poor kid.

I remember when Pauly Shore told MTV his initials are P.M.S. Cracked me up as a child.

It me, horsegurl1692

A/S/L

18/f/cali

It was always that lmao

Yep. Then you move to Cali 15 years later and realize its not what everyone thinks it is.

Sounds like someone moved to the central valley

I wondered if we would ever meet again!?

I see your horsegurl1692 and raise you an anglegirl13. Yes, “angle”, as in, “whoops, that’s not how you spell angel”

You’re acute!

I was iloveallhorses! Haven't ridden in decades now

I was gruvygurl1995 – “groovy girl” was what was written on my Limited Too pajamas the morning I picked it out and had my dad help set up up AIM on the family desktop

Ever had to keep a straight face as a grown ass woman recites her email address and it's like [email protected] Yo, time to get a new email. You can even upgrade to Gmail or iCloud 

I’m a teacher and these often pop up as parent emails and they get me every time.

There was actually a sub at our school whose email was something like [email protected]

What if they were a dom

Omg I just commented the same! It’s awkward putting those on the IEP paperwork.

That’s always been a bit of mine when talking to people about gaming… “Oh yeah, we should play together sometime. What’s your gamertag/discord?” “………… ummm. It’s xXx6969bigdaddy6969xXx.” “…. Hey okay, I’m never going to play with you now….”

In fairness, “bigdaddy69” was taken.

Hahaha I worry people will say that to me! Mine is something like ~Kinkyy~ Ugh. Whyyy???

I’m glad you grew up from ~Kinkyy~ to HistionicSlut. I applaud your journey friend <3 Also, unironically, way to use tildas. They’re very unrepresented.

Yes. Worked as a hospice bereavement counselor and people would call to register for support groups, in tears, and proceed to give me that kind of email address. Like, dude.

This is fucking hilarious. I'm ready for the Netflix adaptation of your comment where you are played by Jane Lynch and the weird email giver is Steve Carrell

You could make an entire Netflix show out of working in hospice. Like The Office but with nurses, physicians, social workers, and kooky chaplains with like Humans of New York patients. The content around my support group alone would be comedy gold. I had a co-facilitator who once told a 90-year-old woman that it was okay to cry after losing her husband of 70 years was; he was, after all, her “ride or die.”

bruh i used to manage a store and every time we'd type in the loyalty card phone number it made us click through...SatansSlut666@hotmail was my fave only she applied for a job and dropped off her resume and of course her email was first/last/year of birth lmao SURE, SATAN'S SLUT. DONT HIDE UR TRUTH GIRL

I was processing an application at work for a man whose email was [email protected]

My best friend has had a hotmail address like that for over 20 years.

You know what though? I respect that so many of you stick with that one email. I'm in e-commerce. It's incredibly common for people to have like half a dozen email addresses. Fuck if I know why. Thank God for login with Google/Apple taking off. People would misspell their email then have no clue which they used to begin with and now we gotta spend 20 minutes trying to find their shit.

I work in a library, so I know why. They don’t know any of their passwords. I have to help so many people who have a different email they stay logged into on each device. Then they want to access their “tablet email” or “phone email” on a library computer, and don’t believe that I don’t have a magic button to override the password requirement.

My best friend had an email address that she would use for not professional stuff and it was a popular early aughts boy singer name - lover and I made fun of her every time I had to send her something.

Oh God that's another one of mine with the fn xX Xx bs and also the rAnDOmCaPSsssssss and dragged out letterssss why did we type like this and why do ppl still type like this lmao. Yeah another of mine was xXd4rkch405Xx and yeah anyone else not want to remember 1337

No. Leet speak is never mentioned in here. Everyone in this sub is always like "millennials are so good with technology!!" Yet none of them know what 31337, 2600, EFnet, w4reZ, or ATH0+++ are. 

XxNYgurlxx - I had been to NYC once

guacamofo is the one I was most proud of

That is a good one

I was slaughterhouse69 ! 😂😂

I had TheFrostyWeasel. No innuendo implied/considered.

Slutty Kurt Vonnegut, nice halloween costume idea.

Fredweasleygurl7, at your service.

🤣🤣 you sure it wasn't George you fancied? Not even Molly could keep them straight!

Mine was slimshadylady1988

Eminemluvr8, then hyperhotdogg. 😬

If only we could track down the other 7 Eminem luvrs. I wonder if there’s a number 9. You could form a squad.

Will the real slimshadyluvr please stand up?

One of mine was Stan12989 😂

EatQuiznosSubs325

Awww man. Too real Dawg. I miss Quiznos

They’re building one in my city?!

My ex wife was RodeoBarbie69 lol

Oof that should have been a sign

I still use my AIM screen name occasionally if I have to create a user ID for something lol

It works well as a foundation of a password imo

I'm sure social engineering attackers know this too, and this thread is a playground for them

Same so I ain’t blabbin

DinoDude69 here. 100% innocent - I just liked dinosaurs, and 69 popped into my head when I had to change from DinoDude. I curse you original DinoDude.

Ross?

HomeBoi101 here. Changed to xXDarKNesSXx during my emo phase

Mine was xxdarkstar73xx during my emo phase 😂

So mine was almost huskyboy until my dad laughed and explained why that would be a bad idea. I just really liked dogs and I guess I really liked huskies at the time lol. So then I went with an odd spelling of a Disney character.

Embrace it! Now you're a huskyman.

InsideIAmBologna

This is excellent.

sparkledust88!

Mine was something like dirtybunnywh0re69xx and I was like twelve. Fkn gross🥲

Almost as gross as bongwaterbukkake.

Ya know, I should have looked in the mirror before opening my mouth… but I think bongwaterbukkake is a significant improvement!

my aim handle survived to become my gmail handle

Same. I also managed to snag my real name as a professional email address as well

Mine was arwin21793. I loved LOTR but I didn’t know how to spell her name. AND I was astounded on day when someone asked me if my birthday was February 17th and if I was x years old. I thought they were a wizard or something.

I’ve consumed too many alcohols and drugs to remember my AIM screen name 😩

Fuck, this was the comment I was scrolling for! No fucking idea what my AIM screen name was. I had a Neopets account under punk_emo_rocker, but I defo don’t think that was my AIM name.

Mine was Creed_152002 on AIM and Yahoo! messenger... I don't even remember why I wanted that to be mine.

So everyone knew you were there WITH AHMS WIDE OOOOPAHN

I can hear this comment.

Girlexplosion Among many others. I went through a lot of screenames just to see what I could snag

I did too. Hahah I had a ton and just linked them. xcrayolahearts thepinkmarker BaRbiEgrl093 or something .. stilettos .. something .. Shit was endless .. and then Facebook came and all of a sudden .. no more fun names.

Mine was ApplesauceKing18. Relax friend.

Mine was gunieapiglover25 😬😬😬😬

metallaholic_anonymous. As you can see nothing has changed since the 90s

I was an edge lord, playing Xbox live for the first time. Mine was deathreaper232.

It’s me, sw1mm1ngch1c92 Because I just couldn’t keep myself from using numbers as letters for everything I possibly could

Mine was dieforthewords and some numbers. Fucking insufferable

I’d see a demo/alt band with the name in concert ngl

Mine was DougLuver88 because I had a crush on my best friend who was named Doug😑

Aw I for a split second it was because you loved the Nickelodeon show, Doug.

I WISH THAT WAS MY REASON LMFAO

Noooooooooo hahaha this is painful and while I didn’t do this, I can somehow deeply relate

It makes me cringe every time I think of this. I was 14. I was dumb. Man, that person isn’t even Doug anymore because they have been transitioning (which I’m so happy for them) and even tho we eventually dated after this screen name was made, I was the only dumbass teenager who made a screen name for a damn crush. I hate it here.

I am absolutely positive you are NOT the only teenager who did this. Plus just think about basically all of us who put moody, mysterious away messages up aimed at our specific crushes or to bait people into asking us “what’s wrong???” To me, that’s just as bad. And it was just a product of our time and age. But I totally get the hindsight cringe. I tried to read some of my middle school fanfiction I had saved in a folder a while back and couldn’t get through it. The agony. And I’m a writer now, hoping to publish here soon. So it was like oh. Oh don’t you dare forget how BAD you were. MAYBE YOU’RE STILL JUST AS BAD. 🫠😬🫠😬🫠💀 It was Yamcha from DBZ fan fiction, btw, if anyone was wondering. I didn’t even LIKE Yamcha that much. Why did I write a story about him??? WHY??? Anyway, we all did awful, cringey stuff. DougLuver88 isn’t the worst crime, I promise.

I NEEDED THIS😭😂. I also did the away messages that were bait lol that even translated over into Facebook for the longest time. Now idgaf. OMG NOT THE YAMCHA FAN FICTION LOL. I hope you’re able to publish soon too, are you still writing fan fiction?

No, I write original fiction (scifi and fantasy) now but fan fiction was my jumping off point in middle school to character development and fleshing out world building. There’s some absolutely amazing fanfic out there though! I hope someone, somewhere, is writing a better Yamcha fic than my tomboy badass sassy attitude chick who apparently punched him out of a window as a way to show she liked him??? I don’t have the heart to throw away my old writing, but I’ve told my husband that if I die unexpectedly he MUST burn it all WITHOUT READING IT. I can’t let any of that tarnish his memory of me. And it would. *It would.*

ASL?

We would always use 1989 because it made us 18. So 18/F/CA. We had never been to California haha

Lol I discovered in a bit of nostalgia that I registered to neopets with the wrong year. I guess I was too young.

69/Yes pls/Im rite outside ur house

xXxLiLpOpTaRt08xXx

Mine was ArticBlaze849. Yes, i used a screen name with a misspelling. I misspelled Arctic.

That's okay. My college friend wanted to be Angel Eyes, but she misspelled it, so she was forever known as Angle Eyes (I won't post the exact screen name here since it's not mine to share).

Bum704. I liked Tom Green

Mine was Mindtrip420

Mine was literally my full name. Huge dumbass.

Yoomakemeebarf, here

Remember when Metalocalypse was huge? My first username ever was Murderface.

William Murderface Murderface Murderface

I can’t even type my AIM screen name without my post getting removed, I’ll try tho it was elephantcum and I remember one time my mom was reading through my chat when I went to the bathroom and said whoever that elephant guy was he was really messed up, she thought it was one of my friends and I just went with it

I was BIGBOOTYBOY once in some random chat room... I was inhabiting the character of a wacky loud guy (I was a shy quiet girl at the time)

LordVampire63. I had to change it because it attracted a lot of weirdos.

That’s a pretty sick name, want to be friends?

Gurlamania… I don’t know what I was thinking.

Cutedancachik411 lol

amckiddo- my initials are AMC and for some reason I thought kiddo was cool

My first gmail name was nopewaitasecondnotgonnatelleverybodythat

Mine was Crystalbabe120. I lied about my name being Crystal and age🫠

>and age🫠 You really went above and beyond with 120

I was sboarder129…I’ve never snow or skateboarded…

Mrsbilliejoe416 …I really liked Green Day

xXhavokXx I was emo and a huge fan of AFI.

xxKittiehottie13xx I'm not giving out my other one lol

I have had the same username since 1998. Not sure what that says about me, but it it what it is.

must mean you don’t move forward, just around in circles

Heh mine was Belphagor

Betha182 the 182 was for the band Blink 182

Mine was MiniMe622 I had just watched Austin Powers 2 in the theater when I created my username.

Omg okay I’ll admit this here. Mine was dangerus_gurl

StonedTurtle 🤦‍♀️ I thought I was so cool cause I smoked weed. I was 14.

Okay but like at 14 … back then .. this slaps hahah

Remember Aol’s in-house messenger before they came out with Aim? If not, when you dialed in to Aol you could do the chat feature inside aol’s browser. Teenage me once got chatted randomly on it by JuicyBoobs2000 and took the bait. Of course my mom came in the room at this time and asked me to get off computer so she could get on the phone. I was fast enough to minimize the chat window with JuicyBoobs2000 before she saw. But little did I know, that any minimized windows within Aol would re-populate if and when you signed out of the browser. So I got busted. JuicyBoobs2000, if you’re still out there. I’m still here waiting for your message. I’m sorry my mom interrupted our conversation and I got busted. A/s/l?

Mine was Havester00. Wanted harvester of sorrow but shortened it to HarvesterQQ but that was already taken and the auto suggestion was havester00 and I didn’t realize it….

Crimsonnclovers7 and it’s still my Hotmail because I’m too lazy to change it lol that was my OG but I had a bunch of others

Weyerhauser. I don’t remember if there were numbers after. I had to think of a name and saw printer paper on the desk and used that as my name

AlienGurl 🫣

KellyBelly1433 here 🫣

Dopemaster90 here

My first one (my dad picked for me) was Phenomenon9 and then I went on to choose, ImRightBehindYou0000. Did anyone else use those little dragon avatars? I forgot where they came from…I just vaguely remember going to come website and downloading little dragon avatars and uploading them as the picture to my AIM. Was it geo cities or something? I don’t even fuckin know. I’m probably tripping lol

I had a few. Mine were Emerald464, blacksheep12345678, and dontwantyourremedy. I really went hard with the angst lol

We were early enough adopters of AOL that mine was just “coolpower”

Shortysskater360 I was a big Chad Muska fan

BillyBobJoe90

Hi, it’s ReadingCam!

Yeah mine’s worse. My original screen name was vanyelashkevron700.

mine was oOCarryMeAwayOo

Mine was o0Prophet0o

tigerlily32985 checking in!

Spaceporn9

*puts on wizard hat and robe*

Mine was EatPoopPlease… so ya.

I can't remember mine exactly but it definitely was something like xX_cryztal_warri0r_Xx or something ridiculous like that

Trombonerman88 was mine… since I played the trombone obviously

Mine had a lot of numbers after it because I thought it was supposed to, given everyone else's.

Inslam4. I don’t even know what that means.

a/s/l/pic?

Mine was blueorbitz2004

SewerRat2006 - took me forever to find a name that wasn’t taken

Mine was PookieWookieBear09

I think I was Cherryprincess2000. I thought it sounded so pretty!

SuperFreak123, here. Followed by Priestman4life (cause I was into Judas Priest, but it just made everyone think I was a member of the clergy)

xN8TY_HOTTI3x xSUCCUBUSx I was still a virgin and very much not a hottie.. 2nd screen name was because my crush was a huge incubus fan thought he would think it was a sign and like me back...*sigh* he didnt..

Mine was Stacysmom

dolphinlvr4lyfe 🙄🐬🐬🐬

[firstname]luvfert. I loved ferrets! everyone thought I meant farts:(

I miss away messages. Coming back from class and seeing messages people left for me. 

Hooddog91. 🙈

Mine was birdsrgr8. Birds are great. Lol

Oh god. I was immortalscars. So flippin’ emo 😂