Most of you probably don't give a shit about this, but here is a history behind some of the screen names and PFA forum names I've used -- all of which date back to the '80s.
Dan Druff: I used this as a screen name on some computer bulletin boards (BBSes) in the '80s, though it wasn't one of my main ones. I did not originally intend to be known as "Dan Druff" in poker. However, as it was my most common screen name on the early sites I played (Planet, Paradise, Pokerstars), I became known as Dan Druff before I associated my real name with it in 2005. By then, it was pretty much set in stone that people knew me as Dan Druff, so I stuck with it. I also signed up as Dan Druff on neverwinpoker in 2004, BEFORE telling anyone there (including Micon) my real name.
Kilowatt: Kilowatt was never used here, but it was the name I used on 2+2 in 2013 and 2014 when they let me come back, but laughably I was not allowed to use the name "Dan Druff" there. (This was a directive from David and Mat Sklansky.) I was allowed to say that I was Dan Druff, I just couldn't BE Dan Druff there. Weird, but then again, when has Sklansky ever NOT been weird? Kilowatt was my name on a very strange and eclectic BBS in 1989 called "David's Amazing BBS", and I then used it again as my login to a college UNIX system in 1993. Most notably to me, Kilowatt was my first online poker account ever. I used it on Planet Poker in February 2001, but the account soon developed an issue where it had a negative balance, and they had a hard time fixing it. To remedy the situation, I just created dan_druff there, which became my second online poker screen name ever.
Flying Stupidity: This was the name of a fake account I created on a BBS in 1987, after being kicked off. The name has no meaning. I just thought of it out of the blue and created the fake, which lasted for a few months while I got increasingly obnoxious with it, and it was eventually deleted. In 1991, I briefly had a college radio show called "Flying Stupidity", which lasted a few months. The name was not used again until over 20 years later, when PFA started.
The Hacker's Delight: It's currently the name of a little-used forum on PFA, but it was originally a piece of phone hacking software that I wrote for the IBM PC in 1986.
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Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe
