{"id":3519,"date":"2015-02-02T11:57:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T16:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2015-02-03T13:32:07","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T18:32:07","slug":"the-origin-story-of-origin-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/the-origin-story-of-origin-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin Story of Origin Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I&#8217;ve been fascinated by Internet handles. That is, what name do people use on the Internet. Do they use their real name? Are they semi-anonymous with a pseudonym or screen name they like? Is there identity a complete mystery?<\/p>\n<p>In December, I finally decided to act on my curiosity and started asking. The interviews are posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/\">Origin Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t tell many people about it. But I started to send emails with that subject line, <strong>What is your Origin Story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I debated long and hard about what questions to ask. I didn&#8217;t want to ask too many. I didn&#8217;t want to ask too much of people&#8217;s time and attention. So I tried to keep my questions brief. And even then, the questions have evolved since the  <a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/104085264303\/the-origin-story-of-richard-j-anderson\">first interview.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is what I&#8217;ve asked everyone.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What name do you use on the Internet?<\/li>\n<li>Do you keep the same name everywhere?<\/li>\n<li>Where did it come from?<\/li>\n<li>What does it mean to you?<\/li>\n<li>Why did you choose it?<\/li>\n<li>Do you ever think of changing it?<\/li>\n<li>Why do you \/ don\u2019t you use your real name?<\/li>\n<li>What was your first internet screen name?<\/li>\n<li>What is your favorite name you\u2019ve seen in your travels across the net?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I added this question when I realized I was asking these interesting people about their stories. I should also ask them whose story they&#8217;d like to hear.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Whose origin story would you like to hear next? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even later on, I realized the blunder I was making by not pointing my readers to these fine folks. So I added the last question.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Now that people have heard your story, where can they go to find out more about you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure it will continue to evolve as I figure this thing out and bug more people for their stories. I&#8217;d like to thank everyone who has taken the time to take part in my little project so far.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/104085264303\/the-origin-story-of-richard-j-anderson\">Richard J Anderson<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/104669290084\/the-origin-story-of-curiak\">curiak<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/105263864742\/the-origin-story-of-patrick-rhone\">Patrick Rhone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/105865255452\/the-origin-story-of-chewingpencils\">ChewingPencils<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/106507073763\/the-origin-story-of-casey-liss\">Casey Liss<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/107218816498\/the-origin-story-of-obiwattkenobi\">Obiwattkenobi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/107888358804\/the-origin-story-of-ismh\">ismh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/108540814571\/the-origin-story-of-tony-giunta\">Tony Giunta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/109199066195\/the-origin-story-of-dr-bunsen\">Dr. Bunsen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\/post\/109879447708\/the-origin-story-of-bsag\">bsag<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thank you all! I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun with this project so far. And I hope those who have taken part have enjoyed it. I feel like I learn something about each of these people from the answers they send back. And the best part is getting to know people I hadn&#8217;t previously crossed paths with on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been a lot of fun so far. So if you should see an email in your inbox asking about your origin story, I hope you&#8217;ll take part.<\/p>\n<p>New Origin Stories go up every Monday morning at <a href=\"http:\/\/ostory.tumblr.com\">Origin Story<\/a>. New posts are tweeted from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/storiesoforigin\">@StoriesofOrigin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For as long as I can remember, I&#8217;ve been fascinated by Internet handles. That is, what name do people use on the Internet. Do they use their real name? Are they semi-anonymous with a pseudonym or screen name they like? Is there identity a complete mystery? In December, I finally decided to act on my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - The Origin Story of Origin Story","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[793,781],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-origin-story","tag-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/OriginStoryheader.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3531,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3531"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}