I was just pondering as I was going though all the recent viewers to my blog, and their viewers also.

There are many different screen names out there. Ranging from the most simplest "jim" to the most elebrate "ikantjump39846."

The question that come to my mind now is "What screen names are going to be left when my kids grow old enough to log in?"

Now granted, I don't have kids yet, and givin my love life is a cold as ice cube, it doesn't seam like I will be having any in the near future. But when I first got online back in early 1990's, I signed up for an email address, and relized that I am not the only John in this world. So I did what the webpage suggested. I added numbers to the end and success, I have an email account.

A year or two later I found out about AOL's Instant messanger. Figured out a new screen name based on what I was doing in my life at that exact moment and wah-la eqrunner is born. Yes same screen name as this my mindsay page. But enough about me, now to my point of this rant.

All of the comon names have been taken Jim, Jimmy, Jimbob, and their close cousins. People who sign up today are needing to come up with more creative screen names. Mixing prases around, taking their favorite celeb's names and jamming them together, then ad their birthdate or current year to the end. But whats going to happen ten years from now? Is every name in the dictionary be taken. How far do people need to go to come up with an orginal screen name?

And what about old screen names. Take for example AOL IM. I have 10 screen names that I have registured. I'm sure you have a couple yourself. What is AOL going to do with them? Do they plan on recycling them? Let them drift off into history? Or are they carved in stone to the user who registured them and never can they be used again?

While on the the topic of registured names. Did anyone ever think about web page urls? john.com isn't taken yet. But jonny.com is. Some one is sooner or later going to registure john.com. What is John twenty years from now going to do? I have noticed that companys who do one time deals or short term events come up with some intresting web url's. Like the American Cancer Soceity's celebrationonthehill.org. Now that the event is over, how long is this page going to last? Are they ever going to release the url? or just hold on to it for ever? Which means that anyone in the future who wants to hold some celebration that resides on a hill, will have to get more creative on their event. lets say clebrationonthehillnewyork.org. But the event is also called Celebration on the Hill. Now everyone who wants to go to the events webpage, doesn't know to add the 'newyork' to the end and end up at the ACS site. This, I think will just cause more fustration on the interent.

All I see happing in the future, you will ask some one for their email address and they will reply with jimjimmyjimbojimbob2051ilovelucy1994@hotmail.com. And hope that you can remember it all.