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Episode: 1613
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Title: HPR1613: What's in a nickname?
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1613/hpr1613.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-18 05:49:27
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It's Wednesday 8th on October 2014. This in HP are episode 1,613 entitled What's In A
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Knick Name. It is hosted by Enzius and in about 8 minutes long. Feedback can be sent
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to Mikhail at Enzius.c or by leaving a comment on this episode. The summary is Mikhail talks
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about his internet nickname.
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What's in an internet nickname as Shakespeare did not ask in Romeo and Juliet? Many of us use
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an internet nickname. If you also use their nickname offline, at least in some context.
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My general internet nickname is Inzius. This is the story of how I came to use that nickname.
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I have used it only a few years, which is probably a lot shorter time than most HPR
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listeners have used theirs. I first used Inzius as a domain name for my blog. I didn't want
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a Swedish or an English name but something more general. Somehow I thought Latin would
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be rather useful. Latin is not too exotic and it's timeless as there has been no native
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speakers for a very long time as far as I know. Latin might also give an error of sophistication
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and education. Of course many Latin words are already used and even trademark for various
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entities, so it took me a while to find a word that was both meaningful and in little
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use today. I don't remember how I stumbled upon Inzius but I immediately liked it. It
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means ignorant or unskilled. Perfect. By using that name I keep everyone's expectations
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low and it's also not very likely to be trademarked. I mean who would call themselves ignorant
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and unskilled. A search for Inzius on the Almighty Search Engine came up with very few hits.
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It seemed like a rather rare word on the internet back in 2011. So I felt that I found the
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right domain name for my scribblings. It's also a short word. So I registered Inzius.se
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and started blogging. At some point I also registered Inzius.org. I really had no plan
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for what to use the .org domain for but I found the idea of a website for say an organization
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for ignorance, rather appealing. But there was a drawback. The domain owner name and address
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are in the clear if you search with who is for example, at least for those top domains.
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After a while I received mails from different registers, given me generous offers to also register
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Inzius.com in order to claim the territory of the ignorant. One of the registered registers
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said I could have the .com domain for the low price of $550. And I even on two occasions received
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snail mail across the Atlantic trying to convince me to buy the .com domain. Talk about an industry
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that produces practically nothing while charging lots of money. I didn't renew the Inzius.org domain
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as I just got bored with this spam and I did not really have any ideas what to use it for.
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And at the time I was also unaware of the possibility to own a domain without openly publicizing
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my name and address. At the time of recording this episode the .com domain and the .org domain
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are registered in different European countries. Maybe there is a global growth of the appreciation
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of ignorance. Ignoramesis Unite. About the time I started blogging I also joined Identica.
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I used the nicknames Inzius there too. That is how it also became my nickname.
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So this is the first and only internet nickname I've used in different contexts.
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I mean before I have of course used many other names in different online forums and communities.
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Later I've heard my nickname spoken by other people and I realized I had no clue as to how it
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is pronounced. I never expected anyone to say my nickname. So I did a bit of research and it seems
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that the Romans said inskis while during the middle ages in church Latin it became Inzius.
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I've chosen the Roman pronunciation. That's the story of my nickname.
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So has this been just an exercise in narcissism and or are there any lessons to be had from this
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episode? Maybe that one day someone is going to try voice unique name and maybe it's good
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having a nickname that is pronouncible. My real name is Michael. I respond to that too.
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And thanks for listening and sorry for my slightly rough voice due to some cold.
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