| | THE Username: An Historial Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Usernames were sometimes character strings that looked like comic strip curses, and sometimes pure numeric strings that people were supposed to commit to memory along with their phone numbers, home addresses, and zip codes. |
 | | With six-plus-two, the username is constructed of the first six letters of a person's last name (or all of the letters if there are less than six) plus a first and middle initial. |
 | | If your username is a politically incorrect or undesirable word in a foreign language, or if your common name and initials leave you with no username, or anything in between, call the Help Desk. |
| www.uc.edu /ucitnow/spring_01/usernamehistory.html (953 words) |