People using the internet will rarely go by their given name. Writers seem to have some very specific ideas of how this works. The Cracker and Playful Hacker will use an alias as a pseudonym for all their hacker-y deeds (In extreme cases they'll only go by that name.). They tend towards single words or two word phrases (preferably cool sounding). In more recent works, since Technology Marches On, there's a fair chance there will be a more "normal" screen name for a character with an email or IM address. Expect generic references to popular characters and streams of numbers and letters appended to the end or replacing some of the characters. It will almost certainly involve a pun on the user's given name if they're an important character. If an aforementioned "hacker" uses one of these it's
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