MOC6-17, Username

Kit: Project Mouse-Cars, Sahlin Studio and Brittish Designs, TLP
White paper: What I like About You, Pink Reptile Designs, TLP
Style: Glittery Goodness, Mommyish, TLP

Journaling:
I graduated from college in 1997. I’d had internet access free at school, and when I moved down to DC getting back online was one of the first things I did. Computers were a lot more basic in 1997. One of the limitations had to do with naming. I don’t know the technical reasons why, but in some versions of Windows, file names were limited to 8 characters. That carried over to early online forums. I signed up for internet access with AOL in May of 1997, then I registered in some plastic canvas forums. Similar to finding an un-claimed gmail address today, finding an available 8-character sequence you could claim as your own took a lot of trial and error. I ended up with rach, short for Rachel, the number 3 (which may have been a random choice or had a meaning I’ve since forgotten), and then 97 for the year and 5 for the month. It became habit to use rach3975 as a forum username. Here I am, 20 years later, still known as rach3975 on digiscrapping sites!