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lpbk2713

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2. My DU screen name was influenced by AOL.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Feb 5, 2021, 02:42 PM

Feb 2021

The first few years on AOL I used my first two initials and my last name. But then it
got to where I wanted more privacy. By that time a lot of AOL screen name were like
Bob123 or Mary789. So when I signed up to DU almost twenty years ago I thought I
would mock some of the AOL style user names that were in use at the time.

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