[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/nondist/peps pep-0000.txt,1.24,1.25 (original) (raw)

Thomas Wouters thomas@xs4all.net
Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:11:37 +0200

On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:21:32PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:

BTW, my current employer assigned "tpeters@beopen.com" to me. I was just "tim" for the first 15 years of my career, and then "timone" when you kids started using computers faster than me and took "tim" everywhere before I got to it. Now even "timone" is mostly taken! On Yahoo, I'm "timoneone" now. I have given up all hope of retaining an online identity.

For the first few years online, I was known as 'zonny'. Chosen because my first online experience, The Digital City of Amsterdam (a local freenet), was a free service, and I'd forgotten the password of 'thomas', 'sonny', 'twouters' and 'thomasw'. And back then you couldn't get the password changed :-) So 'zonny' it was, even when I started working there and could've changed it. And I was happy with it, because I could use 'zonny' everywhere, noone had apparently ever thought of that name (no suprise there, eh ? :)

And then two years after I started with that name, I ran into another 'zonny' in some American MUD or another. (I believe it was TinyTIM(*), for those who know about such things.) And it was a girl, and she had been using it for years as well! So to avoid confusion I started using 'thomas', and have had the luck of not needing another name until Mailman moved to SourceForge :-) But ever since then, I don't believe any name is not already taken. You'll just have to live with the confusion.

) This is really true. There was a MUD called TinyTIM (actually an offshoot of TinyMUSH) and it had a shitload of bots, too. It was one of the most amusing senseless MUs out there, with a lot of Pythonic humour.

-- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net>

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