TLU Three Letter Username Obsession - Computerphile 

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+PowerChannel88 Aho is the A in AWK :)

+Tanooki100 I've met the 'W'.

+Tanooki100 My dad's name was Arthur William Kent. He was a computer (a person who calculates, to keep the accounts of a business back then). I'm pretty sure he never did any lexical analysis. Please ignore this comment.

writers of AWK? :D

BSS = Bernie "The Socialist" Sanders

Nostalgia Nerd me too, almost exactly the same time 🤪

same here, just 5PM.

If I had a nickel for every pointless comment like this I’ve read, I could retire. If you don’t have anything to add to the discussion, nothing more productive than “first” or “(number of dislikes) people _____” or “who’s watching in (time)?” or something like that, you don’t need to hear yourself talk; it just clogs up the comment boxes and makes it harder for people who actually want to start a conversation to make themselves heard!

my username is a tlu of my college, it was initials plus date of birth

Sometimes it's inevitable. I had the exact same name as the HR director at my high school. I got multiple sensitive emails intended for him. The administration email format was different from the student format, but similar enough for people to screw it up.

+veggiet2009 There was always that guy with the initials AAA. lol

+veggiet2009 Although my initials are GDH- I always entered 'RAT' on video games. I liked picturing the people looking at my score thinking "I'm gonna beat that stinking RAT this time!"

+GruntUltra RAT are my actuall initials :))

+veggiet2009 Was just about to post a very similar comment. Devs in the credits back then used nicknames/handles too. Some like Knoami still do it from time to time.

+veggiet2009 "TOM" for me :)

well... in that case, it'd be understandable. Gerald is pronounced with a soft "g", where as .GIF comes from "Graphics Interchange Format", and therefore a HARD G. "gif" is correct when speaking about .gif, "jif" is not and it drives me crazy. just like people who pronounce "sysop" "sci-sop"

Aurelius R sci-ops is the pronounciation of psy-ops aka psychological warfare. It's an infamous part/tactic of the secret services, especially the more sophisticated operations that really mess with people's minds. So calling sysops psyops is really bad.

+John Francis Doe I guess you never heard of sysop as in system operator hence his point :)

gif being pronounced jif? The correct way? Yeah, that's fine.

Jraphics Interchange Format

***** STOP INTERRUPTING ME! (wow much joke very funny)

+Twilight Sparkle DI :)

+TheChipmunk2008 but in the end we got around that and "run/stop restore" got masked too... cause vecors are ment do be bend :-)

+Twilight Sparkle dat MIPS

Hardcore x86.

lol

He must have been a friend of 'root.'

@@tibfulv Charlie Root

and of course these day a Non-Maskable Interrupt is more commonly known as Karren.

+Ze Rubenator oh there's worse things out there. Henry Ignacious Voltaire, Aron Stanley Simmers, Frank Alphonse Gadd

+Ze Rubenator | Simon Osgood Barrett sounds wonderful.

+Ze Rubenator std, in comp-sci so often refers to "standard" that that's probably what people would think of first. have fun googling for info about "std list" in the CPP reference. Often mixed results there.

+Greymerk I thought of the std lib just before reading your comment! :D

+side2sideful (example) Leo Ian Bradford worked with Steven Thomas Dunn

+Just a HKer thats... awfully specific

+Just a HKer Then they do it like the university done it. Faculty, department, position, initials, etc. You could add so many variables. Anyway, this kind of system is kind of outdated from a technical standpoint and therefore not that common anymore. Our local newspaper over here uses it though.

+EnderCrypt Specific, maybe. But it's certainly not arbitrary. 3 letter usernames, 26 possibilities for each of the 3 characters. That's 26^3 possible usernames. 26^3 = 17,576

Ahh sorry, misread that.

+Just a HKer I'd allow numerals and underscores.

David Icke? Former British sport commentator, now a complete conspiracy theory nutjob.

@@auntiecarol lol

+Jan Sten Adámek It's not named after him, he chose the name Git because it reflected him.

+scbtripwire woosh

+meridious3 he could be trolling

Of course it's Torvald's joke. Whoever does not get it, well, Git is named after him as well :-)

scbtripwire is being facetious to parody your seriousness

i still use the tlu given in college, it was initials plus date of birth

+Kristoffer Rødsdalen Hagen If that's true (and many others are suggesting it) I believe you are the first along with Bart Kevelham. You both commented 37 minutes before the comment section loaded for me (according to the time stamp).. So.. Congratulations I guess :p

+Little Lion Hehe. Then I have to say thanks I guess ; ) I admit that I take far too much pride in this than is sensible so be aware of that when I say that on my end it shows that I beat him with about 2 minutes. I want my recognition for being first on the internet! (Not really though, but I'm not against milking all the possible fun out of it)

Kristoffer Rødsdalen Hagen haha, yes but thinking about how the time stamps work, the fact that they are slightly different on your end than on mine seems to suggest that they are in some way connected to your local YT server or something similar. It would make sense that you both see your own comment as being registered earlier than the other's. So in that case it makes sense to remove that "bias" and call upon an third source that might use a different local server. And for me they are shown on the same minute ;-) One of you two was probably earlier, but I don't think we'll ever know for sure who was first. The difference will be smaller than within the delay margin.. (unless of course I'm closer to you or to him from a server perspective, But there's no way of knowing that.:p)

+Little Lion I'm going to beat you clean out of the water when it comes to time commitment on this. I have now decided to look into the RU-vid API to see if I can retrieve the actual timestamps as seen by RU-vids main servers to determine who was first. I should note that I'm not claming to be that first commenter, only the first to name DEK. Side note: This is the first (atleast that I can remember) time I bother commenting on a RU-vid video and I intend to get my moneys worth! Besides, I needed an excuse to test out the API anyway.. : )

Kristoffer Rødsdalen Hagen Nice!! Dude, that's pretty impressive. Can you explain how you got the id of both comments?

HUT physlab and CSC used TLUs, mostly.

Lawrence D’Oliveiro On the kind of system he mentioned, you would have been [ 11, 4, 21 ] or just octal 26225 Typed in as ldo on a 5-bit teletype and loaded straight into a 15 bit register. The same coding would be used for command parsing, assembler mnemonics, variable names etc. Heck, smart cards still use 16 bit file names!

Same thing with the student emails generated at Trinity College Dublin today.

+Kasper Guldmann True story --- --- "I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First 'Linux', now 'git'." -- Linus Torvalds.

Where they really euros ?

On Plan 9 he was 'rob'. Some more Plan 9 names that buck the trend: seanq, presotto (at least). Edit: and td

Presotto also went for the minimalist approach at Google, with "p" ...

in my college it was 3 initials plus date of birth

as it happens i still use the tlu today

@@fss1704 Haha, me too for some things.

+11Kralle Yes indeed! Although my favourite version is probably the one by the Mamas and Papas.

+YouHolli Frank Ugo Quaid, Dorothy Inger Kristiansen, Carl Oscar Karlsen

+Koppa Dasao Lionel Oliver Lesson

Benjamin Ulysses Marx How about recursive accronyms? Donald Oliver Naysmith Daniel Arthur Nesbitt Victor Iain Chesters Darn, I kind of which my name was like that now! My surname begins with a B so: Rebecca Elizabeth Burt Deborah Elizabeth Burt Robert Oliver Burt Sebastian Eric Burt Pablo Andrew Burt

+YouHolli Paul Oliver Orson *tee hee*

Shirley Holbert Thorson

+Dan Dart I kno rms frm gnu and fsf too!

+Dan Dart Root Mean Square, Extended Support Release, Abstract Syntax Tree

dmr!

Darrin Swanson Writing in C and keeping things light, you could run an entire university on a raspberry pi. 64k core per user goes a long way. You could splurge and give them 512kb of disk :)

Neophlegm Just try not to let in Ulysses S. Grant.

+Bart Kevelham If that's true (and many others are suggesting it) I believe you are the first along with Kristoffer Rødsdalen Hagen. You both commented 37 minutes before the comment section loaded for me (according to the time stamp).. So.. Congratulations I guess :p

Aho, Alfred Vaino, of awk and egrep.

Richard Smith That must be the stupidity they insist on in some backwoods state perhaps. Birth certificates are regulated by the state they are issued in, and thankfully most states got their act together and tweaked the rules to accommodate other cultures.

jagara1 You obviously didn't type it enough times. Not revealing mine here.

Actually I think I do remember it now - your response triggered me ;) and all the horror of the 2 hours a week of computer time came back to me. In the first year we had a 2 hour computer time limit and basically had to write code and test it on paper - they wanted to teach us to think not how to experiment.

Whenever I had a choice, mine did not change in 40 years

David Korn is (was) dgk. Not sure what the G stands for. (I say was, because he's no longer at AT&T, and at Google I doubt he is still dgk.)

+Major Gnuisance I was expecting you would bash them instead. :P Anyone who thinks they need GitHub to use git can fork off!

Pyramid *ALRIGHT, YOU ASKED FOR THIS!* _punches self_

+CowLunch Very punny.

I use git with Bitbucket.

TRiG (Ireland) Right. And the thing is, you don't need to use git with _any_ such service.

Ihrbekommtmeinen Richtigennamennicht I find that it only falls short once optimization is considered, as all the full iterations could be compiled more efficiently if the increments could be moved and/or combined by the optimizer.

I can’t imagine using C# efficiently without understanding how casting works. It’s not a particularly complex process. But I’ve been using C++ for 20 years and most days I forget all the kinds of initialization you can have in C++. There’s like a couple dozen ways, all with their own quirks. Now that’s nuts. And even then, I like both C++ and C#.

Where are you from? In the USA usually only the fathers surname is carried on

crunch9876 UK, normally it's the same sort of thing, but on my birth certificate i have both my mother and farther's surname. even if it was only my farther's name, however, i'd still chose my mothers last name, since my dad died when i was too young to remember.

+ToastmachineIdiot Well done! So here's a simple supplementary.: who would KLT have been if he hadn't already possessed a UNIX username?

Yep, Aho's the A in awk! KLT seems to be Ken Thompson