AIM Shame: Your Most Embarrassing Screen Names, Lettered

As the world moves farther and farther away from a time when AIM was the king of the communication game, we take a look back at our earlier selves. When you finished Saturday morning cartoons as a spunky tween and then logged in to AOL’s dial-up service, what was the moniker you used? We asked our readers to tell us their most embarrassing screen names—share your own in the comments below.

@whiskeyfoxxtrot@Paste_Design mine was “ryangrrrrrr”

— Ryan Balas (Robel!) (@robelfilms) May 14, 2015

@whiskeyfoxxtrot XxxIolexxX Minor character from Xena/Hercules I RPG’d in chatrooms

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— Alana J Pinsler (@AJP_lighthouse) May 14, 2015

@whiskeyfoxxtrot teaathps

— Eric Beatty (@theericbeatty) May 14, 2015

@whiskeyfoxxtrot cheeto6666 (p.s. is that your real name? If not, it’s clever)

— Dammit, Dan™ (@DanTheLeo) May 14, 2015

@whiskeyfoxxtrot@PasteMagazine twinkletoez709….so there’s that. ????

— Lauren Ho (@Elle_Ho) May 14, 2015

@whiskeyfoxxtrot SwallowtheMoon15 (a Jewel reference, obvs)

— Caroline in the City (@carolinecox) May 14, 2015

@whiskeyfoxxtrot@PasteMagazine xmadisonartsygirlx

— anda marie manteufel (@anda_marie) May 14, 2015