Username Origins
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Username Origins
My username comes from raion, a soviet-era administrative district pronounced rye-on, ultimately from french AFAIK. I did this name because of an art film I saw called Desniansky Raion by Cyprien Gaillard. The word in that pronunciation has origins in Croatian and Ukranian.

The old references to foxes in my old userids is because the fox is the animal my Chinese name contains: 孟兆狐/Mèng zhào hú 

For those who don't understand Chinese, the IPA is /mə̀ŋ ʂàu xʷú/ or roughly, for Americans, "muhng jow who?" (the question mark is because you're supposed to rise your tone as you say who, as you would in English)

Definition: Meng is a surname related to Mengzi/Mencius, a Chinese philosopher. I like his name, as Kuroi translates to "Hei" in Chinese, which is pronounced like "hay" and not very nice sounding. Zhaohu literally means "millions of foxes" and refers to a story I wrote in high school. 

Not very clever, but it gets you the idea of this thread, I guess?

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01-10-2020, 12:27 AM
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RE: Username Origins
"Johnny Johnny" is a avatar-like assistant program used by the main character in one of my favourite books: "The Long Run" by Daniel Keys Moran.

Trent, the main protagonist, is a genetically altered thief/hacker in a futuristic New York City. Hackers would write programs called 'images' to assist them with searching online information repositories, break into systems, defend against counter-attacks, control automation systems, etc. - kind of like a hacker's swiss army knife combined with Google Assistant on steroids.

Great book from 1989 that deals with AI, the Internet (book came out in 1989), genetic engineering of people, the United Nations, internet addiction disorder (6 years before the term was "officially" coined), and a bazooka in the bathroom.

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01-10-2020, 01:56 PM
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RE: Username Origins
Mine dates back to the late 90s. I was signing up with Yahoo Mail back in the day (didn't have an e-mail account at that point). "Trippy" was a slang word commonly used at the time to mean something good/cool, so I tried that as a username. Already in use :(. So I thought, it's an account on the net, bunged that on the end and found it was available.

Given that I hate e-mail addresses with 1267UK or other such shit on the end to make them unique, I went for it. And as it's an unusual word, I've found it is often free on forums and other services, so it's kind of stuck ever since. It wasn't ever meant to be a long term thing...

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01-10-2020, 07:39 PM
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RE: Username Origins
I could have gathered the canis lupus designation from yours.

"trippy" lol I miss the 90s but also don't. I was 6 when 2000 began. The early 2000s are a huge part of nostalgia for me though.

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https://contrib.irixnet.org/raion/ -- contributions and pieces that I'm working on currently. 

https://codeberg.org/SolusRaion -- Code repos I control

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