AOL Screenname Memories

January 27, 2009 - 12:00 pm By Noa - CU Boulder

aol.jpgI remember when I got America Online for the first time. I was in second grade and acquired the coveted CD Rom disk from my best friend’s dad. We were the first two kids in school who had it. This was before AOL was called AOL, before it offered unlimited use, before cable modems, hell, it was before Buddy Lists existed!

Yes, I realize I’m totally dating myself here.

Anyways, AOL was the coolest thing ever back then and your screenname said a lot about you. Especially to all those random “friends” you made in the AOL chatrooms. You know you joined me in “I Love Nickelodeon 65″; don’t lie.

I changed my screenname more often than I changed my clothes (I was a little tom boyish back then…and changing my SN wasn’t a big deal when I had 2 friends online). First it was SpiceGrl321, then Whateva321, then DiamondBaby. Then I had TenTap for awhile. It was a combination of my favorite pastimes – tennis and tap – as well as an online best friend necklace with my two besties who had TenDan (tennis and dance), and TenAno (tennis and piano). We were so cool.

In highschool – when my BFFs became BFNs (best friends for never) – I switched it up to something a little more mature that I knew I could hold onto for awhile. Because, you know, BeanieBaby1000 would be a little embarassing for anyone over the age of 12.

I’ve been talking to some friends lately and reminiscing on our old AOL days and everyone has the same story as me. Embarassing screennames, family screennames (remember when you had to share with your parents and the name was some weird combo of all your initials?), and the constantly evolving screenname.

I just want to know: what were your old school, embarassing AOL names?

Do you still use the same one?

Has your BSB4Ever@AOL.com email address hindered your job hunt?

Share it all in the comments below.

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33 Comments on "AOL Screenname Memories"

  1. eliz says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 200912:21 pm 

    ahh i love it

    my first was lizbthe.. because my name wouldn’t be cool but this awkward abbreviation clearly was. then of course came a time when you could be signed onto two names at once, so i’d keep my normal one up with an away message informing all of my friends about my new screen name every other month.. (:

  2. Lindsay says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 200912:28 pm 

    Wow… I remember those “free internet” CDs that used to come in the mail. I wasn’t allowed to have an email address until I was 11 and guess what it was because I am the most unimaginative person ever? It was my birthday. Year included. That’s not stupid at all is it?

  3. mal says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20092:54 pm 

    i still have the same one… lol but i definately know a girl whos sn was like, poolsidebaby. we live in colorado. no body has a pool, and the only time we go to pools is in like july, for a week when its warm. i thought that was ridiculous. :)

  4. Aislinn says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20093:24 pm 

    lets talk about sugarhy247. Yeh, I judge myself.

  5. Josie says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20095:46 pm 

    mine was alosernamedjosie haha. after i made it my friend, my cousin and my cousins friend made alosernamed… screenames.

  6. Emily says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20095:49 pm 

    I don’t remember my first few, but the one I still have, but don’t use, is BraceFace132007 because the show was cool and I had braces…plus my favorite number and grad year.

    Yea. I was cool

  7. Laura says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20095:53 pm 

    my sn.. since I was 14

    fat boys cake04

    … it still is. I recently got aim again and my sn is still there I guess.. wouldn’t you know.. haha

  8. Kelly says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20095:54 pm 

    I had a lot of them, usually involving sugar/baby/dream/devil/angel and some combo of my birthday. Those were the days. In high school I used the same one that was extrreeemmmely emo and then in college switched to a basic initials/birth date to be spared from the judgement, haha.

  9. K says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20096:12 pm 

    Oh I remember them all, so embarrassing.

    4th maybe 5th grade- celebrityk (WHY?)

    6th – curleeq90210 (i live in jersey not cali)

    cutie702something relating to Brian Littrel’s Bday

    Kayboarderbabe (though i did not do anything relating to ‘boarding’)

    icepop65

    NsyncSweeT00 (personal fav)

    7th – Kay+numbers (I still have this one)

    8th – Kaylalalalalala (annoying?)

    kaylafromdablock (jenny from da block was a popular song)

    kaylaisgangster (omg this is so bad)

  10. Cathy says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20096:16 pm 

    From Middle school there’s

    foxiimami4u

    kraziikittykat24

    and my aim now it krlyroots or cathytyped

  11. Kelly says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20096:51 pm 

    My first one in middle school was AAGirl928, which was supposed to mean “All-American Girl” but all the other people online thought it meant “African American Girl” and I got strange messages from lots of older men.

  12. kt says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20096:54 pm 

    oh man i was a victim of the family screenname. k2b1j1. lol.

  13. Sarah S. says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20097:07 pm 

    vetranbabe (still use it – win!)

    OgimaFanson, Hanson0947 (or something), airgurlmon (mixed Aaron Carter & Hanson), RawkDizWay…..

    Probably other stuff. Man, I miss AOL.

  14. beth says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20098:06 pm 

    OK… Lets see… SkateBeth85, LynxLover1, both when I was obsessed with our ECHL team the Lynx… then there was QTBeth19… OjosVerdes, and the one I still sometimes use which is ZeroBero… my maiden name was Bero so Zero just naturally fit :)

  15. Vany says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20098:40 pm 

    MINE WAS VANYBSB123@AOL.COM

  16. Rachel says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 20098:51 pm 

    embarrasing…latindiva88

  17. pamela says:
    Tue, 27th Jan 200911:10 pm 

    yumalicious12. yeah i have no idea. i was 12. lol

  18. Casey says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 200912:42 am 

    haha I too had a family one for awhile, Claca1, which my mom still uses, and to make it worse her license plate said Claca on it and everyone knew her car as the “Claca Van”

    mine were just as bad though. My first one was, ACM1216, and the one i still use for professional stuff only ACM1687, then I had sk8ncutie7 which I still sometimes use, then I had carebearsgirl9, stardust713 (my primary username for everything, still) jackandhisbean (WTF?!) iluvridncowboyz, oceanbabe000, pepespoodle, rainbowriver713, sexylilthngbkini, silversnow713, slsschick713 (sandalwood lady saints soccer chick and my jersey number), starstruk713, VAcutie1287, xyourplaytoyx

    yeah a bunch of skanky ones, and a bunch of weird ones.

  19. Amber says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 20092:16 am 

    Oh, the good ole days.

    My first AOL screenname (I was 11) was TeenQueen1201543…lol. I’ll never forget it. I hated all the numbers though.

  20. Brittany says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 20093:02 am 

    My sister and I mostly used AIM to prank people, and here are a few of our old SNs:

    buttbuttgolf (like putt putt)

    MeatyCheezyBoy (from those Jack in the Box commercials)

    DenimPanties (can’t remember why we used this)

    I used:

    eightieslingo

    I still use that for my email and stuff.

  21. Jess says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 20098:22 am 

    chickstar08, oceanbabi8, orlisgurl (for orlando bloom lol)

  22. Rebekah says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 20098:56 am 

    Lovebug6789 (6th-7th)

    Nascarchick6789 (8th-12th)

    gagurl4ever247 (9th- 12th)

    confederatsweety (10th) confederat – the e lol

    i had more but i can not remember them….

  23. Joanna says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 200911:35 am 

    My friend and I were really into BonneBell’s Flipgloss (really) and we were flipgloss187 (me) and flipgloss169 (her). It was rad.

    Most of my friends and I had our real ones, like slightly less embarassing ones, but then we’d make up all sorts of other ones on the side. I had a bunch of extras, but my real one was just based on a nickname and my birthyear, and it became my permanent email address later.

  24. Katie says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 20093:05 pm 

    Mine was catwoman and then some numbers what a dsgrace. That was before the movie and everything i hadnt even read the comics WTF

  25. Katie says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 20093:06 pm 

    Oh right I remember now it was because I was a mini crazy cat lady and loved cats and wanted the world to know. :/

  26. Marisa - high school senior says:
    Wed, 28th Jan 20098:51 pm 

    I remember when that song “Work It” by Missy Elliot was popular, and I’d wanted to make a new SN and the first thing that popped into my head was CinnaBun and some combination of numbers. That was thanks to a friend who wouldn’t stop singing the damn song and this one line:

    “Give ya some some, some of this cinnabun.”

    Not a proud moment for me.

  27. sara says:
    Thu, 29th Jan 20091:07 pm 

    M00NKiD1490 – um I really liked sailor moon…

    sarabelle314 – or something. my nickname and birthday, so not too bad.

    mine now is still old but I like it… lol:

    x0 5WiMN6iRL o8 – get it!? Swimmin girl!?! so creative!!!! Lol or so I thought…

  28. Lex says:
    Thu, 29th Jan 20094:57 pm 

    Mine was Lexichicknut. Sad to say, it actually still is. It’s too late to change it now, especially since I rarely use it. It was back in the day when I was like, “Oh I’m so crazy and it makes me so cool!”

  29. amanda says:
    Sun, 1st Feb 20098:25 pm 

    when i was younger i decided to combine a few of my favorite things candy and winnie the pooh so my screen name was candynpooh

    it was pretty bad i still wonder why my parents allowed it

  30. Neil says:
    Sun, 16th Aug 20092:28 am 

    ThisAlienShore

    MorbidDrowsiness

    MischiefUndone

    RickyRetardo

    Those were the days, lol. RPing and OOCing in The Forest and Red Draon Inn when it was traditional RP chars VS DBZ chars.

  31. rosetullier says:
    Tue, 29th Dec 20099:14 am 

    would you plese help me get my old screen name back its sweetrose51b @ aol.com

  32. rosetullier says:
    Tue, 29th Dec 20099:16 am 

    i really would like my old screen name back

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