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Obligatory "not today" disclaimer: actually fucked up over two decades ago, but found out today.

At the dawn of theinternet, I made an account on imgur. I figured (correctly) that I wasn't going to use it often enough for the username to matter much, so I just went with the first part of my email adress and a number four times.

Turns out that there is such a thing as nazi number code and it's never a good idea to use an even number of 8s for usernames when you're not a nazi.

TL;DR: Didn't know about nazi code, accidentally selected an imgur username ending with the equivalent of a double Hitler salute

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At the dawn of the internet

imgur

Hmmm

[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The internet first went online in 1983.

I may have t-shirts older than OP.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Tbf, having a shirt for over 40 years and not have it completely disintegrate is pretty impressive!

But yeah, for a minor history buff, I'm TERRIBLE with dates 😂

[–] Spacebar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you for taking good natured ribbing... good...naturely. Cheers.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

No worries lol, laughing at yourself is one of the funniest things you can do 😁

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[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not very good at judging how long ago things were 🤷

[–] onepinksheep@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm pretty sure 1990 was ten years ago.

[–] wagesj45@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s true. I know because I looked it up in my gut.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 1 year ago

One of my first handles was "Necro_File."

I just meant, like, a 404 error. A dead file.

I didn't know about necrophilia. 🤦‍♂️

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same. I used my school username "1831942". Later, I found out that was the date the American Nazi party was founded...

[–] chaos@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On the 83rd day of January in 1942?

[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] chaos@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

That makes a lot more sense. I dunno how I didn't see it

[–] Xanthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yknow what. Maybe I got I trolled a decade ago lmao.

[–] chaos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

🤷 Maybe it was a super leap year

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[–] CarterH@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

I did the exact same thing. I've been using the name for decades and recently found out about this. My initial reaction was, "Fuck them. I've had this username for years and I'm not gong to change it just for them." Unfortunately, while I know that it isn't related to them, no one else does. It sucks that they get to take possession of it like that but I prefer the inconvenience of changing usernames over the mistaken association with that shit, so I changed the ones I could and abandoned the ones I couldn't.

[–] Zikeji@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My randomly assigned 4 digit discriminator on Discord back when I joined was "1488". Didn't know it was a Nazi calling card until one of the members in the community I was participating in tried to get me banned over it.

Fortunately it only took a month or so with Discord support to get them to change it. I contemplated buying nitro so people wouldn't think I was a nazi lol.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I know that's not the definition being referred to, but it being called a discriminator is tragically hilarious in this case 😁

[–] Permafrost@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

holy shit lmaooo would be one hell of a tactic to earn money: "pay us money or we'll make you look like a nazi"

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[–] fische_stix@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

United States federal ambulance regulations got the unfortunate designation of "KKK" (edition *a, b, c, d etc). So now when I search for information for both compliance and product purchasing I have to figure out a way to enter things into a search engine that won't get them blocked at work or get me on a list I don't want to be on. Recently the term triple k has been usable but a lot of products still start with the three letters and then their model number, worse yet many have a space between the three letters and the number.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I go by Klear these days, but originally picked King Klear as a nick, since I liked Shakespeare and Serious Sam. Obviously.

Anyway, there's someone out there taking my name on certain sites, so I use KKlear as a backup. I'm always joking that I don't know what I'd do if KKlear was taken as well...

[–] Karjapuskuri@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In my country we have a chain of stores owned by the K-group, the K comes from 'Kesko'. The used to have small, medium and large stores. The small ones were one K stores, mediums were two K stores and the large ones were three K stores. I shit you not, there used to be huge lighted signs outside the large ones that read 'KKK-Supermarket'. You can find pictures of these on the internet still.

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[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I once had a meth head start a conversation with me in Clash of Clans because of my username.

[–] sputtersalt@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

my brother's email ends in '88' because it's his fav number. he likes it because it looks like two sideways infinity symbols. he's had his email too long and it used it for too many accounts to (easily) switch to a new one. so you're not the only one lol

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[–] platysalty@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ehh, then a lot of Chinese people are nazis. We love the number 8. I've got 88's in some user names.

Also bonus cause I'm born in 1988

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

My city has a Chinese grocery store that's just called 88. It's considered a lucky number.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My username has absolutely nothing to do with drugs, but everyone thinks I've done crack. Never tried cocaine in any form.

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