Victims of an overcrowded Web domain...

Thanks to ramya for forbidding me from making a blog outta this….

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I love my name.. Rishi.. only one in a million people have that name in the world! But the sad part is there are 6 billion people on earth… so that makes it what? 6,000 Rishis in the world??? And unfortunately, most of them seem to have yahoo accounts!!!…. You’d think creating an account is simple! But the only way that’s gonna happen is if your name is something like odoriferous gargoyle… but the downside is that you’ll just have a yahoo id, no friends………..

On that fateful day, when two 16 year old kids went to that internet café to create an email account, they had to spend an entire hour on this stuff!!!

Enter id: rishi…….too small…. minimum six characters

Enter id: rishi_iyer….already taken, try again…..

Enter id: rishiv…. already taken, try again…..

Enter id: r_iyer…. already taken, try again…..

Recommended ids: rishi1984, 1984rishi, rishi_9384

“how boring !!! dude, this is the new millennium year 2000… keep that!!!”

“Good idea!”

Enter id: rishi_y2k…. already taken, try again…..

Enter id: y2k_rishi…. already taken, try again…..

@#$%

ok, lemme think….i will create a name that has not been taken before!!!! I swear!!

“YES!!! The day I was born, I’ll keep the star’s name… “karthika” “

“Dude!!! U cant keep that name on yer id…. That’s a chicks name!!!”

“Yeah, yer right…… I can always keep karthik, tho….”

“Cool….try that….”

Enter id:y2k_karthik…. already taken, try again…..

Enter id: karthik_y2k…. already taken, try again…..

Holy FU@%#$ !!!!! ok, this is it….if this doesn’t work, I’m jus walkin out!!!

Enter id: y2k_kartikeyan….

Congratulations! You will now be taken to your inbox!

NOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooo… After nearly an hour of hard work and sweat, I was stuck with y2k_kartikeyan!!!! Crapshit!!!

There is a small fundamental problem with this id…. What? IDs are meant to be given out to society…. For adding in messenger and the like…. 99% of the time, I’ve been asked hey, how come u got an id like this????? Because I asked for it you morons!!!! Telling such a long drawn out story is not exactly my idea of a perfect evening…. So I just grit my teeth (it’s a good thing actually…. people sometimes misconstrue this as smiling…..) and cook up some shit about me being a muruga bhakt!!!! And unfortunately, that story catches up!!! When I get within like a 100 metre radius of civilization, the whispers start! Hey, isn’t he the lunatic who created a yahoo id based on his god????

On behalf of all the unfortunate souls out there who did not get a decent yahoo id, poor victims of overcrowded web domains, let me make this clear once and for all!!!! 99% of yahoo ids are born out of sheer frustration…. I have christened it the warmass phenomenon…

The possibility of a lousy yahoo id is proportional to number of people in the world who share your name and inversely proportional to the amount of time you can sit on a chair in front of the comp without yer ass getting too warm for comfort…. Yes… if you are at a net café, the frustration also kinda depends on the amount of money in yer wallet…

So if you have a decent id, stop acting smug and just consider yourself lucky that you did not have to reach that threshold of frustration…. More importantly, stop rubbing it in and have some sympathy for your unfortunate brethren!!!

Actually there are some exceptions… for some people who do not have anything better to do with life, this is just a way to burn time…. A certain person has this id called chocodusk… weird yes… “dusk” is her name translated to English… I did not bother to stay long enough to listen how the “choco” part got tagged along…

The following are some of the other incredible ones I’ve encountered….. makes me feel that my own id is godsent!!! I’ve also tried hard not to ask them their inspiration behind cooking up these ids (I owe it to my fraternity) but I’ve tried to come up with explanations of my own…..

odoriferous_gargoyle – a girl who doesn’t want arbit men to add her to their list?

reet_1947 – puzzling….Maybe a tree lover…. 1947 = independence????

iwillbemba – poor guy with 4-5 yrs workex, after an especially depressing simcat?

thesoftwareplanet – hacker nerd!!!

sid_rattlesnake – don’t mess with me kinda guy!!!

killdababe – wannabe rapist / gamer….tough to choose…

devil_onleash – a guy gripped with yogic reverberations

free2rhyme0881 – someone like me, really frustrated at the net café.. prolly jus ran his fingers over the keyboard and took whatever came up!!!

kewljk – pseudocool chap from athippatti? The question mark is only for the place….

kryptonetra – dream outfit is an underwear over pants??? Hence the superhero touch!!!