Do you remember the time before gmail? The "in" thing to do as soon as you had access to this dingy little place called a cyber cafe, was to create a hotmail or a yahoo ID. I don't know what it was about these sites, but for some reason people tended to create emails that were bound to be embarrassing later in life. It was like a wave of drunkenness took over the keyboard and an odd combination of words combined, to make what was eventually supposed to be your identification of an online presence.
CoolGuy81.. Magical_Megha.. Sparkles4Sneha.. DancingPonies.. Smile4Ever.. RforRahul.. NotMyEmail.. ILoveDosa.. Bored_foreva.. GreatestLover.. UselessFellow.. RockerChick.. mail_me_here..
and, am embarrassed to say this but I went with PsychicNet (yes, really!)
Along came gmail with its invite snobbery. Everyone begging for an invite and making professional sounding firstname.lastname addresses. What a sea change! And a welcome one at that. An email address is as good an identity as a phone number used to be. And it is just too cutesy for a reflection of your childhood fantasy hero to surface in this identity. Especially when CoolGuy621 is actually now bordering on BaldGuy6021!
And yet once in a while you still come across someone who'll fill in their email address as Supernatural_Shortstuff at yahoo.com and it makes you wonder, why!? What is it about Yahoo that brings out the fuzzy-duddies :P
Have you seen some email IDs that were really out there? What was yours? Come on.. 'fess up..
