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TimeLine2008

2008-04-18T19:21:54Z

Ornat: /* April */

{{Timeline Years}}
[[Category: Redbrick History]]

== January ==

Christmas Cake & exams, not much happens here.

== February ==

* Thursday 7th - EGM Held to fill vacant admin position. There were no candidates. The committee asked to modify the constitution to reduce the size of Helpdesk from 3 to 2. This was not passed.

* Saturday 16th - minerva.redbrick.dcu.ie goes live as login.redbrick.dcu.ie

* Monday 25th - Techweek begins with the Video Editing Tutorial by Allen Dixon. Later that day there is a launch party in the old bar, which was epic win.

* Tuesday 26th - Install Fest in the seminar room, followed by Filmsoc's showing of DieHard 4pointless.

* Wednesday 27th - Techweek continues in the seminar room with talks from demonware, Sean Hand, and Colm MacCarthaigh.

* Wednesday 27th - Murphy takes over from Deathray as www.redbrick.dcu.ie. Horrid hash bangs no longer required in php :)

* Thursday 28th - Web Design & Photoshop workshops, followed by Q-Zar and beers.

==March==

* 4th - Amy deemed to be resigned for missing lots of committee meetings. She won't be replaced until the AGM.

* 7th - Deadling for socs awards. Redbrick submits nomination for Most Improved Society. The competition will be: College View, FotoSoc, Flashback, Juggle Soc & St Vincent de Paul. Redbrick also submits a nomination for Tech Week, which will be competing against Ross O'Carrol Kelly, Arts Week, Fame the musical, Debate's DCU Open, European Business Weekend, Jugglesoc's Unicycle to Galway, MPS's Shag pad, and the Andorra Trip.

* 11th - Follow up workshop to the Linux Install Fest held.

==April==
* 1st - Redbrick annual table quiz is held. Western Digital Passport 160GB external hard drives are given to the winners. gamblitis wins the raffle of an EEE PC.

*3rd - AGM

Chairperson:

Robert O'Reilly (robby) was elected with 16 votes. Kat Farrell
(angelkat) received 14 votes.

Secretary:

Damien Rathigan (dano) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

Treasurer:

Leah Doyle (bambi) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

Public Relations Officer:

John Needham (colossus) was elected with 22 votes. Matt Fitzpatrick
(snoogins) received 9 votes. Failchair received one vote :(

Events Officer:

Lotta Mikkonen (attol) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

Helpdesk:

Sean Hand (revenant), Seaums Ronan (train) and Gavin Tubritt
(gmblitis) were the only candidates and were elected by a
majority show of hands.

Webmaster:

Andrew Martin (werdz) was the only candidate, and was
elected by a majority show of hands.

System Administrators:

Andrew Harford (receive), Cian Brennan (lil_cain), Eoghan Cotter
(johan) were the only candidates and were elected by a
majority show of hands.

* Redbrick wins Best Website at the Clubs and Socs Awards, which were held in the Helix on Thursday 10th of April. Redbrick Chairperson Andrew Harford wins a First Five award for Best Individual.

*17th - Redbrick wins Best Society Website of a Large College at the BICS Awards in Dundalk - Best Website in Ireland!

TimeLine2007

2007-11-28T02:32:20Z

Ornat: /* October */

{{Timeline Years}}
[[Category: Redbrick History]]
==January==

==February==

14th - DCU RAG WEEK - Redbrick raises â‚¬283 for charity through phaxx getting hair straightened and receive getting his curled. Phaxx and receive after that afternoon headed off to the RAG week chapel to join together in holy matrimoney!!

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/394566083/ atlas's pics]

[http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/ragweek07/ phaxx's pics]

if that wasn't enough heres video footage:

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0sv31MB6gQ video 1]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3mFKfQJnHc video 2]

[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQzjLreXTQ video 3]

16th - A group of 12 brickies attend Skynet's Open Source Conference, Skycon, at the University of Limerick.

==March==
12th-16th - Redbrick's Annual Tech Week was held. This year Redbrick joined forces with GameSoc, Debate Soc, FilmSoc, and AstroSoc to bring a week packed full of techie events from talks to debates and film showings!

19th - d_fens nearly took down deathray. Not that this was in any way a noteworthy event.

24th - Redbrick's annual WaveHunt competition takes place. Mythe-86 comes first and tnkrbell comes third for Redbrick

http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/tnkrbell/2007wavehunt/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nahgoe/sets/72157600026698372/

Enigma eats some disks, to general cursing from the admins.

Lil_cain, phaxx, and Art_wolf make known that they were behind the bed in the clubs and socs office, in Campus magazine.

==April==
1st - Atlas and phaxx decide to play quite the cruel April Fools joke on all the brickies. MOTD was changed to say that due to someone running torrents from /var/tmp/ that Redbrick has to shut down. Some brickies are just stupid and fell for it!

Admin: In order to comply with a DMCA takedown notice served on DCU,
Redbrick will be going offline indefinately as and from 00:00 this
coming Monday. Thank you all for your membership throughout the
years. We hope to return some time next year.

2nd - Rebrick Table Quiz held in the Old Bar. As usual there where winners, losers and also debates about questions! Check out gallery for pictures, theres plenty of them anyway!

-The winners were a bunch of Wafs from debate. The losers were me, johan, dahtac and revenant -lil_cain

3rd - The DCUSU Genereal Elections take place
Plenty of Brickies running for position on the SU exec for 2007/2008. Gizmo runs for president, but fails to be elected.

3 brickies compete for Computing and Engineering Convenor (landa2, cutiepie and mythe-86). Position eventually was won by landa2. Cutiepie comes in second.

The electoral committee was run by plenty of brickies namely receive, tnkrbell, johan, lil_cain, atlas.

5th - Dramabob elected chair of the SPC (for another year), lil_cain elected secretary, and johan elected ordinary member.

Also on the 5th the Rebrick Admin, Helpdesk and Webmaster tests are held. Lil_cain, werdz, johan and drag0n took the admin test while johan, castle, moju, revenant and lil_cain (again) took the Helpdesk test. D_fens took the Webmaster test.

9th - An attempt is made to rerun history when some randomer (kevd) from Campus (An Tarbh replacement) is invited to join RB, and write an article about it. He's generally lots less cool than cain.

10th - AGM held in QG13 at 6:30pm. All positions filled.

'''Chairperson:''' Andrew Harford (receive)

'''Secretary:''' Kevin Fox (undone)

'''Treasurer:''' Ashley Dooley Martyn (mythe-86)

'''Events:''' Kat Farrell (angelkat)

'''Public Relations Officer:''' Damian Rhatigan (dano)

'''System Administrators:''' Cian Brennan (lil_cain), Andrew Martin (werdz), Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

'''Webmaster:''' Richard Dalton (d_fens)

'''Education Officers:''' Matthew Barrington (MoJu), Declan Whelan (castle) & Eoghan Cotter (johan)

Lots of competition with receive, jesjes, and tnkrbell running for chair.

12th - Game Soc miss winning Best Society however they did walk away with Best Website. Gizmo, yrag45 and dramabob also win awards for Best 5 Individuals!

13th - Enigma is pronounced kinda dead by svan. Upon further consideration over the next few days, status is further downgraded to 'brain damaged with no chance of resuscitation'.

18th - The Bics happen in NUIG(Galway) and dramabob wins Best Society Individual!

==May==

==June==
7th - Access to Redbrick was cut off for two hours due to a UPS in CSD catching fire! "The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water let the motherfucker burn, Burn motherfucker burn!"

From the HEAnet ticket:

20070606 23:51 DCU report that the cause of outage was a small fire on
one of their UPS devices. They are currently waiting for the smoke to
clear, then they will bypass the device and restore power to the PoP.
This is estimated to happen before 01:00 on Thursday 7th June.

==July==

==August==
2nd - Redbrick cinema trip to see The Simpsons Movie. Most are unimpressed, and disappointed that the franchise they once loved has stooped to such disappointing levels. Others think it's great.

13th - New, yet-to-be-named Encom server arrives. Contains an 'assload' of storage - 8x500GB disks. Also has 6GB RAM and 2 dual-core Xeons. For some reason came with Ubuntu feisty desktop installed by default, and has lots of pretty blue lights.

==September==

The new Encom server goes through about a dozen names, before finally settling on minerva.redbrick.dcu.ie, which apparently is "horribly lame".

/webtree is moved to minerva. No one notices, or is told.

Moju resigns as helpdesk, citing a dislike of helping people.

==October==
1st - Redbrick give computing students CDs to install java with classpaths and other difficult stuff set up. This is generally considered a good idea, until lots of them manage to break it.

2nd & 3rd - DCU Clubs and Socs days happen in the Hub. Final number of members not yet known.

Our treasurer (mythe) is told to step down by the SPC, as he is no longer a current student. Another Helpdesk member (castle) resigns.

/home is moved to Minerva. Mutt starts to take forever to open, and everything crashes on occasion.

11th - Redbrick Fresher's Ball held in Radio City. It features music from the band Futurism, with Redbrick member holysprt on bass. Games Soc also provide console gaming. Great night had by all.

18th - EGM held to replace Treasurer and 2 positions on Helpdesk. Treasurer position filled by Amy Corrigan (corriga6). Helpdesk got 2 new additions, namely Padraig O'Connor (landa2) and David O'Laigheanain (coconut). There were also three proposed constitutional changes. Only 2 of these however got passed, these being the addition of a First Year Rep to committee and making having to pass the Helpdesk test compulsory. The proposed change to reduce the number of Helpdesk/Education Officers from three to one was defeated.

22nd - Redbrick Monday night football starts up again. Everyone has fun and then heads to the bar afterwards. Several brickies participate in the Students' Union International Quiz on that night. Despite being handed an answer sheet accidentally by the quiz runners, Team Penis still manages to lose after a highly unfair final round that gives teams points for practical skills such as dancing and singing.

Some time in October as well, lil_cain also got rid of his long flowing locks and shaved his head. He also removes all traces of his manly beard, which causes widespread confusion as no-one has ever seen his face before. Shortly afterwards, undone follows suit and also gets a hair cut.

25th - Redbrick cinema trip to see "Black Sheep". Most of the moviegoers are amused, others are horrified. Everyone gets drunk in Fibbers afterwards for mythe-86's birthday.

==November==
5th & 6th - Several RBers graduate namely atlas, phaxx, igy, gizmo, art_wolf, scraib, lithium, dramabob, belleray, yrag45, boing, murdochm.Sure there is plenty more as well that graduated

==December==

TimeLine2006

2006-12-28T00:46:38Z

Ornat:

{{Timeline Years}}

==January==

28th - David Murphy (drjolt) tragically died. David was a Redbrick founder, former committee member and a system administrator and he will be missed by all of Redbrick.

==February==

3rd - The Redbrick Wiki was defaced by spammers. The wiki was temporarily taken down.

6th - The Redbrick Wiki was restored.

25th - Short meetup in DCU to exchange old photos/posters/junk for potential anniversary collage/book. (singer, venus, kpodesta, drusilla, atlas, markpb, charlene)

==March==

(27th - 4th) Week 4 - Techweek. [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/community/events/posters/2005-2006/techweek.jpg Poster]

4th - [http://wavehunt.redbrick.dcu.ie Wavehunt 2] - [http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~jesjes/WaveHunt2006RedbricksTechWeek/ Pictures]

11th - Collage of old posters & photos made in DCU by drusilla, atlas, markpb, charlene, shadow, kpodesta.

16th - Redbrick 10th birthday party. Bojangles nightclub, Harcourt st.

18th - Singer implements the newsgroups reorganisation (this had been proposed over a year ago, but was left unimplemented after there was no real feedback or suggestions). Surrounding the 10th birthday event there was some discussion on the boards about what could encourage new members on to redbrick, and the question of a newsgroups cleanup was again revisited, and singer acted on it! Boards were deleted & renamed!

29th - Colmmacc announces on the boards that Sun Microsystems are donating a T2000 server to redbrick (http://www.sun.com/servers/coolthreads/t2000), which will arrive in about a month's time.

30th - link logs into wiki as yaac123 and adds this to TimeLine2006 entry to confirm he is fully logged in

31st - wiki brought back online after some more hacking (anonymous editing had been disabled on it, but accounts could be created anonymously, which is how hackers got in).

==April==

11th - AGM held in QG13 at 7pm. All positions filled except for one admin. The new committee are:

'''Chairperson:''' Charlie Von Metzradt (phaxx)

'''Secretary:''' Jessica NÃ ChonchÃºbhair (jesjes)

'''Treasurer:''' Andrew Harford (receive)

'''Events:''' Kat Farrell (angelkat)

'''Public Relations Officer:''' Padraig O'Connor (landa2)

'''System Administrators:''' Eoghan Gaffney (atlas) & Sarunas Vancevicius (svan)

'''Webmaster:''' John Doyle (art_wolf)

'''Education Officers:''' Simon Kilroy (gizmo), Kevin Fox (undone) & Diarmuid Bourke (drag0n)

==May==

25th - phaxx orders people to update the scant timeline.

==June==

==July==

==August==
1st - [[Murphy]] (murphy.redbrick.dcu.ie) becomes the new login server

==September==

14th - joe5ie disusered for a period on one week for attempts to tell other users to run forkbombs, defacing the wiki.

23rd - receive notices that there is a timeline and adds stuff at phaxx's request

==October==

3rd & 4th - The 12th generation of brickies join at C&S days. Matthew Barrington (MoJu@Rb) is the first gen12 to appear in chat (he managed to get in weeks before the accounts were created), and seems to already be spending an obsssive length of time online.

10th - RedBrick freshers ball is held in the Vaults Night Club. Not many freshers actually turn up, most likely due to the storm conditions that night. Unusual amounts of lesbian activity entertain those that came though. - [http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/receive/ca2/rbfreshers/?g2_page=3m gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/receive/ca2/rbfreshers]

11th - EGM is held to elect the third admin position. Werdz, Abolo and Igy pass the test and run for the position. Igy was elected.

23rd - The new dell rack is installed in the server room and [[tolka]] is moved out - [http://gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/redbrickrackreplace/ gallery.redbrick.dcu.ie/phaxx/redbrickrackreplace/]

28th - receive wastes a large amount of time trying to put stuff in to the wiki, and finds himself still there at 4.30am

==November==

There was a lengthy discussion on the newsgroups (redbrick.babble) about "Redbrick 2.0", initiated by cammy (i.e. should Redbrick combine all it's different web services to make "Redbrick on the web" for our members, make things easier to use ala Bebo, should we get rid of the ccmmand line NNTP newsgroups). (Copy of the posting can be see on cammy's blog. [http://thedeadone.net/news/a-thought-exercise-redbrick-web-20/]) [https://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~cammy/v/ Redbrick web forums] were started as a web alternative (parrallel?) to the newsgroups.

*Plans for Tech Week 2007 begin...

2nd - Halloween Party held (after Halloween of course) in Isaac Butt's opposite Busaras.

==December==

7th - Christmas Party held in The Slipper with Drama and Games Soc

TimeLine2006

2006-12-28T00:45:35Z

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TimeLine2006

2006-12-28T00:45:18Z

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TimeLine2006

2006-12-28T00:44:59Z

Ornat: /* November */

Places to Eat

2006-12-28T00:14:27Z

Ornat: /* Stephen's Green */

== Stephen's Green ==

Wagamamas (recommendations: yaki soba, chicken katsu curry, fruit juice. Green tea is free!)

Steps of Rome, Chatham St. (off Grafton st!) - Small super, cheap, italian place. Also do pizza slices to take away.

Layla - 31/32 Lower Pembroke St - Turkish food, they do some good and cheap lunches, mmm!

O'Reillys on Harcourt St. - Does a good carvery.

Nostromo on Leeson St. - main course, desert, tea/coffee for 12.95.

Govinda's, Aungier St. (veggie place, but substantial, mild spicy, yummy. Get a "mix plate", bit of everything.)

Metro Cafe, Stephen's St.

Busyfeet, Stephen's St. (Cafe. recommendation: that sambo with brie & rye bread)

Cafe Sufi (Cafe, good food although expensive. Great chocolate cake, super chicken panini)

Bia Bar (recommendation: club combo)

Dandelion Cafe, Stephen's Green (recommendation: chicken wings)

Botticellis, Temple Bar (Small cafe / Ice cream place. Ice creams & Tiramisu are -great- there)

MiMo Cafe in the PowersCourt Townhouse. Nice for lunch.

Cafe Bar Deli, Grafton St, Georges St, Ranelagh. Cheap enough food of decent quality. Can fill up very quickly here.

Little Caesar's (everywhere): Awful food, ghastly decor and worse coffee. The desserts are of the tacky, frozen variety. Be warned.

Queen of Tarts, Dame Street: The best Chocolate Fudge cake ever!!! Lots of homemade treats as well :)

Places to Eat

2006-12-28T00:13:53Z

Ornat: /* Stephen's Green */

Why Did You Choose Your Username

2006-12-09T16:07:31Z

Ornat:

Feel free to add an an entry about your username below!



==[[User:art_wolf|art_wolf]]==

Cool picture I have hanging up. Have had it for ages and its by Art Wolfe.

==[[User:atlas|atlas]]==

I originally handed in my student card, and said "Use my first name, please". I got an email later giving me my username as 'James' ( my middle name ). When I asked them to change, I decided to go with something a little cooler. I had been up for hours before that playing Mechwarrior somethingorother, and the Atlas mech was my favourite. I also, occasionally, feel like I have the weight of the world on my shoulders.

==[[User:bilco|bilco]]==

Cause as a fresher I though it was the character's name from The Hobbit

==[[User:cain|cain]]==

I always thought Cain got a raw deal. Firstborn son of Adam, built the first city on earth and he's remembered for allegedly killing his brother Abel though the evidence is, to put it mildly, unconvincing and God was clearly biased against him. When I joined Redbrick, Cain was gone so I got Caine, which was the spelling of the name in an RPG I played at the time. Dropped the 'e' in my second year.

==[[User:calyx|calyx]]==
Misread the name of a song. In a perfect world, I would have been calx.

==[[User:cambo|cambo]]==

An abbreviation of sorts on my surname (campbell)... original eh?

==[[User:cammy|cammy]]==

I was using it as a web handle long before I joined Redbrick. It comes from the name of one of my first roleplaying characters that wasn't just a bunch of stats. The name for that roleplaying character though, came from the computer game Streetfighter 2.

Well actually cammy was my second choice. I would have liked to use The_Dead_One but that exceeds the 8 character limit.

==[[User:cooker3|cooker3]]==
It is my username for the lab machines in the CA building, it's not to do with an obcession with cookers!

==[[User:david|david]]==
The year that I joined DCU Hasselhoff was given a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. With all the new challenges in my life at that time I found that he was someone I could look up to. I could admire his achievements. He was like an uncle to me. I grew up on Kinght Rider and am looking forward to the new movie coming out this year. And then when I got a little older and started noticing girls I got interested in Baywatch. I wanted to be the stud that he was on that show. Appropriately in 2000 when I joined redbrick he released one of his many hit albums in Germany - "The Magic Colleciton". So I chose david as my redbrick username because ... well actually its not that interesting really, its my name in real life.

==[[User:doc|DoC]]==
It's the initials of my real name. I've been called DoC in real life by friends, family, etc, for as long as I can remember.

==[[User:drag0n|drag0n]]==
Friends in college said that I needed a nickname, probably because they're too lazy to say my full name "Diarmuid" and I find "Diarm" quite creepy, so basically, "dragon" popped into their heads and it stuck! I used be called siphi (for no particular reason, it was a random name I was known by onli ne), then changed to drag0n (with a zero). The zero is because the user "dragon" is allready taken on rb. But everyone loved the new name so I added the zero. If you hey the other dragon, you generally get a confused hey in response, so I generally have heys disabled. anyways...

==[[User:drusilla|drusilla]]==
My nick was surprisingly enough, from the character on Buffy! Friends of mine in second year of school gave it to me when they noticed the similarities between myself and the insane vampire. Funnily, dru was my second nick on RedBrick, before that I was zerocool

==[[User:elmer|elmer]]==
My username came from my first ever email address(elmer@clubi.ie) which i chose based on the looney tunes character elmer fudd

==[[User:exzantia|exzantia]]==
As many, many people have pointed out, my name seems like a random string of letters, and it kinda is... When I was signing up for a Yahoo mail account in '98 everything I tried was already taken. I was not having under-scores or numbers so I decided to come up with something that would always be available! I thus far have succeeded.

==[[User:fatwa|fatwa]]==

In first year, whilst learning to program, my friend Andrew wrote a program that printed out "That's a fatwa on you, mein freund".
I thought it was funny and it must have stuck in my head for redbrick registering. Also, it's short for "fat wanker".

==[[User:fox_chic|fox_chic]]==

Cause I'm an xphile and Mulder's first name is Fox. :)

==[[User:gizmo|gizmo]]==
My nick came from a combination of thinking gizmo was a pretty cool name due to that little flurry critter in Gremlins and also cns putting me on the spot on Clubs And Socs day when I first joined so that I couldn't think of anything else. Strange, but true.

==[[User:gavin|gavin]]==
I needed a username I wouldn't forget and seeing as Gavin was written on my underpants I decided to use that. Handy quinkadink that it is also my real name eh !

==[[User:jesjes|jesjes]]==
My name is Jessica. And people from home call me Jesi, and at some stage during sixth year I decided I much more liked Jess. So when I got THE INTERNETS, I just called myself jesjes. It stuck.

==[[User:keloe|keloe]]==

I wrote down kehoe, my surname and an old nickname, on the slip. However, due to my incapability to write h's correctly, the admins read it as keloe.

==[[User:kpodesta|kpodesta]]==

Because that's my real name. I thought Redbrick was some email yoke - all else fails, I was getting a decent email address.

==[[User:lithium|lithium]]==

Coz I like the sound of it. And coz it goes crazy when you put it in water. And not because of the Nirvana song.

==[[User:macbain|macbain]]==
He wanted the username 'mcbain' but Karlos (mcbain) got it before him. Being original, Sarv decided that macbain would do instead, so he could forever confuse new users between himself and Karl.

==[[User:marvin|marvin]]==
There are three references here : Starvin Marvin from South Park, Marvin The Paranoid Android from Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy and Marvin the Martian from the Warner Bros cartoon. I'll leave it to the reader to decide which one was the greatest influence (hint: it wasn't Starvin Marvin).

==[[User:mo|mo]]==
Due to my considerable soccer talent, I was nicknamed "mo" after Mo Johnston, the scottish football hero.

==[[User:MoJu|MoJu]]==
It's in a similar vein to HoJu(Homer Junior) from the Simpsons. Given to me by a someone on a forum after they saw a picture of me and thought I was the aforementioned Mordeth. So they suggested Mordeth Junior which was then condensed to MoJu. I then adopted it as my second online nick.

==[[User:montoya|montoya]]==

The name is that of a character from the book "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman. The specific character is Inigo Montoya, a Spanish swordsman out for revenge against a 6-fingered man who killed Inigo's father.

==[[User:moridin|moridin]]==

The most evil and therefore cool character in a series of books that I was reading. Said series of books has since degenerated into a mush of crap writing. Boo.

==[[User:nit|niT]]==
Originally my name was a combination of many words that described me, and was dreamt up whilst I was at college in Aylesbury. It all started when I got a demo copy of Diablo from my cousin in Singapore, and us lads built our first LAN at my mate Dave's house. We also played Carmegeddon, the Star Wars game and Quake 2 (of which my mate Dave had a 600mhz processor and TWO 3dfx cards linked up in parallell - he was our God). It was necessary for me to have a character name in Diablo so I chose Nitsuj Buaya Chen, the latter two meaning 'Crocadile man that snaps up ladies' (in Singapore slang) and monkey (as my star sign is golden monkey). I later joined a CS clan called Black Legion and people naturally shortened my name down to nit. At that time I also had a friend who was called 'kippy' in real life and online, so I started using nit in real life too. Later I joined a 'talker' called theManor which was a twin site to the LambdaMoo, there was a guy there who set it all up and went by the nick 'beN', he and girlfriend sadly died in a car accident and so manor spods paid tribute but capitalising the final letter of their nick, hence why I use niT.

==[[User:noelfitz|noelfitz]]==

8 letter truncation of my real name (boring but true.)

==[[User:ornat|ornat]]==

You'd have to ask my parents that question. Ornat is my real name, and unlike popular belief, no, I am not a guy!

==[[User:p|p]]==

Back the old days of IOL/Indigo's IRC servers I used a variety of names, which all began with the letter p. Eventually, I ditched the different nicknames and used ^P^. Redbrick doesn't support weird characters though, so now it's just p. It also happens to be my middle initial.

==[[User:phaxx|phaxx]]==

Originally from the character Lord Fax in the book [http://www.google.com/search?q=dragonriders+of+pern Dragonriders Of Pern] by Anne McCaffrey. I used Lord_Fax in [http://research.microsoft.com/vwg/projectsheets/comicchat.htm MS Comic Chat] for a while. I saw somebody using a 'ph' instead of an 'f', and thought, in that usual 13-year-old way, OMGZ COOL, and promptly became LordPhaxx.
I was LordPhaxx for a few years, until until around 16 when I met a bunch of other Irish nerds one afternoon. [[User:jerry|jerry]] was among them, and commented, "With a name like LordPhaxx, I expected you to be taller."

So er, I dropped the pretentious 'Lord', and I've been 'phaxx' ever since.

See, nothing to do with fax machines! :)

==[[User:receive|receive]]==

It was Michelle Smith (swallow) that dragged me along to sign up during first year, so I'd handed over my 4euro before I'd begun to think of a username, so I turned and said "Shit, Michelle, what will I pick?" and she suggested "receive" because it went so well with swallow. Stupidly I agreed, and it stuck (after we found a spell checker to check how to spell it that is), so i never changed it to anything better. Ironically, i never have been at the receiving end of swallows abilities.

==[[User:r0b|r0b]]==
Rob is my name *shock* *gasp* rob was taken so used r0b instead. Amazing story tbh

==[[User:robby|robby]]==

During my primary school days i was known as "bobby" mainly because it was cool for others to say "bob a job", this originates from my hatching days (spending the majority of time of a football game, in the opponents box) stealing goals.

A natural progression to robby occured at secondary school, joining other mates sully, foxy, danny, richie and cozzy. somewhere along the path me and richie got into Stargate, and proceeded to use somewhat satirical names online (and joking about) of rickophis and robnubis...yah "NERDS!". So my choice for username was either robnubis or robby, i made the logical choice.

==[[User:sandman|sandman]]==

I didn't. It was assigned on the basis that a) I was asleep and b) I read comics, didn't I? Ironically, I hadn't read much Sandman at the time.

==[[User:scraib|scraib]]==

I'm from Kilkenny and 'ScrÃ¡ib' is the Irish for 'Cat-Scratch'! 'Tis a very GAA name, but to be honest I could never play hurling so I picked it really cause it sounded cool...

==[[User:shimoda|shimoda]]==

It was a character in a book (Illusions by Richard Bach) I read during my formative years. Another rb user thought the description of the protagonist was suited to me so I nabbed the name.

==[[User:singer|singer]]==

I was a singer in a band. The guitarist mocked me for being the singer by calling me "singer". The nickname stuck. Non-Redbrick people address me as singer! My 2nd choice username was "scano".

==[[User:spock|spock]]==

I chose spock because I had no idea that it would follow me around for at least the next 10 years.
I didn't even know what Redbrick was when I was joining, and when I had a membership form thrust
in my face by Hyper on Freshers day 1996, we had three preferences for username. I put down "spock" as my first preference. It wasn't taken, and that is how I didn't end up with the username "data", or "benji".

==[[User:svan|svan]]==

Sarunas Vancevicius. First letter of name, then first 3 letters from surname.

==[[User:thedara|thedara]]==

My nick was given to me years before redbrick on irc (irc.phishy.net) I was the first person some americans had met called Dara and they
found that interesting for some reason or other and hence I became thedara.
On redbrick irc i'm known as Darz0re, It was a in-joke at the time when myself and dizer stuck z0re at the end of out names
hence thez0rekorp.com and z0re.org

==[[User:undone|undone]] ==

Couldn't think of anything on Clubs & Socs day, so for about 2 days my username was my actual name. Then I picked this, because of the Weezer song, but also because I think it's a nice word.

==[[User:werdz|werdz]]==

A long time ago in a net cafe far, far away, a sexy asian friend by the name of quank said "Hey Andrew, stop using the name andrew in CS. Use werdna instead. It's andrew only backwards!" - That lasted about five minutes until people got bored trying to pronounce it ("OMG! WERDNA! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!") and just started shouting werdz instead ("OMG! WERDZ! QUIT TK'ING YOU NOOB!"). And that's my life story up until this point.

==[[User:wilburt|wilburt]]==

Long story, guys i used to know named me Wilburtino, i didnt really like it cos they were muppets. However, it grew on me over time. Wanted Wilburtino or Will as my username but they wouldnt let me :( so wilburt was the only one left. Like all rb usernames i think, they are spur of the moment. (or admin mistakes)