Re: My username is...

[Adam Kensai]

This seems a good time to ask, why do most people have all lowercase names? I've been wondering this for some time now ^_^. ~lc(Adam)

[higle]

Shift key... too... far away...

   : )

  higle

[katykat]

I just think its more relaxing to the eye.

[strfry()]

that's because lower case names are, on average, superior to upper case names!
for example (in no particular order): merlyn, vroom, tye, tilly, chromatic, turnstep, frankus, brott, japhy, dws, footpad, jcwren, davorg, jeffa, crazyinsomniac, tachyon

this is of course only a partial list. we're currently working on tolower()'ing Erudil; you'll be informed when we do. (:

strfry(reality)

[Ovid]

that's because lower case names are, on average, superior to upper case names!

ah! that's what I did wrong. i knew it was something. still, spelling Ovid with a lower-case 'o' somehow seems disrespectful to the original.

cheers,
ovid

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[Juerd]

tolower()

lc

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[LeGo]

Good observation... I never noticed people ussually had all lower case. I wish I could answer the questions but I use the shift key when typing my tag.

LeGo

[orkysoft]

I usually for some reason think that a username is case-insensitive. otherwise im very precise about capitals and punctuation ;-)

Lur: "But if this cape shrinks, consider your species extinct!"

[r0b]

All lowercase is very popular in the *nix world and everyone knows all the best perl hackers use *nix ;)

~~rob
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eval pack "h*", "072796e647022245d445f475454494c5e622b3";

[puck]

Most Unixes used to assume that if you used uppercase characters for your username that you were on an uppercase only terminal.

Checking with Linux, if I use all uppercase for the username it assumes that my terminal is uppercase only. If I start with uppercase then go to lowercase it assumes a mixed case terminal.

However, it's still a case of why bother with the shift key?

[flounder99]

BECAUSE SHOUTING IS IMPOLITE!
IF I WANTED TO SHOUT I WOULD HAVE CALLED MYSELF SHARK OR BARACUDA

--

flounder

[elwarren]

Because we program in lower case?

Because commands and files in unix are lower case?

Because if it was properly Capitalized it would be a proper name, which most usernames are not?