I started using mine over 20 years ago. At that time I was stationed at Grand Forks AFB, ND. The towners, as we called them, call the military guys "Basers". Well I started roadracing my 1993 ZX-7 and some pillhead start referring to me as "Richie road baser". So I changed it "Richracer1" when I opened up a Yahoo email addy and have used/still use it on several forums.