I sometimes get people asking me, what's "Rev-Boy" or the meaning behind my nickname.
It feels like so long ago, but I think I can still recall. I better put it in a post before I forget due to my not-so-young age, and the fact that I am not getting younger physically.
1996 or 1997, the advent of the Internet to the teen community among the crowd I was with. mIRC was the biggest thing. Being able to communicate with people no matter how far away via chat was an amazing thing (of course mobile phones weren't common then too) So eventually I tried it. I needed a nickname.
I wanted something to reflect a good guy persona (even if it was made up haha). But I wouldn't dare go online using "goodboy" or "male-angel", that's cliché and corny. So I went with "reverend", sounded neat enough, even had some class to it. I think I even padded it with unique characters, and made it "|reverend|" or something. I think even now it's e-hip :)
Used it for a month or so, then someone created a bot (some permanent online ID) in my favourite chatroom using the same name, and I could not login anymore. I felt cheated. But what could I do ... nothing. So then I went a few years younger, and became "Rev-Boy", again doodling it, and getting "Rev-ßoy", which still looks ok to me. Used that for a very long time.
Many years later, when I got to working with a German firm, I then realised that the "ß" was nothing like a "B" and did not sounded like "bee" at all. The character "ß" is actually a "sharp s", which can be replaced with a "ss", and pronounced simply like a "s", common in the German language. So the German word for street, "straße", is not pronounced "strabe", but "strasse". So, my nickname is not pronounced "rev" "ssoy", that sounds like a bootlegged soy milk product.
So now, I am better sticking to Rev-Boy, just Rev-Boy. This way I don't even need to use the "Alt" button on my keyboard and the keypad (numbers 2 and 3) to generated the "ß" character ... and I don't sound like a drink.
Apparently, there's another revboy out there, but that is not me (I realised this back in 1998 or so). If I ever meet the guy, I'm sure we'd get along well. I think he's from the USA. What do you think ?
Rev-Boy out.
It feels like so long ago, but I think I can still recall. I better put it in a post before I forget due to my not-so-young age, and the fact that I am not getting younger physically.
1996 or 1997, the advent of the Internet to the teen community among the crowd I was with. mIRC was the biggest thing. Being able to communicate with people no matter how far away via chat was an amazing thing (of course mobile phones weren't common then too) So eventually I tried it. I needed a nickname.
I wanted something to reflect a good guy persona (even if it was made up haha). But I wouldn't dare go online using "goodboy" or "male-angel", that's cliché and corny. So I went with "reverend", sounded neat enough, even had some class to it. I think I even padded it with unique characters, and made it "|reverend|" or something. I think even now it's e-hip :)
Used it for a month or so, then someone created a bot (some permanent online ID) in my favourite chatroom using the same name, and I could not login anymore. I felt cheated. But what could I do ... nothing. So then I went a few years younger, and became "Rev-Boy", again doodling it, and getting "Rev-ßoy", which still looks ok to me. Used that for a very long time.
Many years later, when I got to working with a German firm, I then realised that the "ß" was nothing like a "B" and did not sounded like "bee" at all. The character "ß" is actually a "sharp s", which can be replaced with a "ss", and pronounced simply like a "s", common in the German language. So the German word for street, "straße", is not pronounced "strabe", but "strasse". So, my nickname is not pronounced "rev" "ssoy", that sounds like a bootlegged soy milk product.
So now, I am better sticking to Rev-Boy, just Rev-Boy. This way I don't even need to use the "Alt" button on my keyboard and the keypad (numbers 2 and 3) to generated the "ß" character ... and I don't sound like a drink.
Apparently, there's another revboy out there, but that is not me (I realised this back in 1998 or so). If I ever meet the guy, I'm sure we'd get along well. I think he's from the USA. What do you think ?
Rev-Boy out.
1 comment:
ha... now i know how u got d name...a least it sticks...survived the test of time....i had to reinvent myself several time....
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