QotD: My Vox Name

How did you pick your Vox name? Does it mean something? 
Submitted by LeendaDLL.  

Here we go again.  There actually is a bit of a story here, let me start at the beginning.....

When I was in junior high school (mid 80s), I started using BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) using just my first name + last initial.  Boring.  Didn't like that.  Started trying to come up with a cool sounding name and decided to go with the name of a character on a cartoon I was watching.  The show was Robotix, the character: Nemesis Enforcer.  I just used Nemesis as my name.

I continued using that for many years, until I started having trouble using the name at most sites.... too many other Nemesi (Nemesises?)  So I started to think of a new name.  I wanted something unique, so that I wouldn't find myself using different names at various sites (as I had to do with Nemesis).  At the time I had also been reading up on my Celtic heritage, so I decided to look for a Celtic name.  I figured I would look for something Celtic that related to the name Nemesis.  Well, Nemesis is the Greek goddess of justice, so I started looking for Celtic words with similar meanings.  I came across Ceart which is Celtic for correct or right, which was close.  I also liked the look and sound of the word, so I decided to choose Ceart.  One concern I had was that the username would be too short for many sites, so I decided to add some digits to the end.  The year I chose the name was 1999, so I became Ceart99.

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