3PennyProphet

This is part of a series of Internet Nicknames that I did into wordmarks.

“3PennyProphet” is an online nickname that I use from time to time, and for personal email. The idea spawned for it when, while driving in downtown Toronto, I noticed a sign that said 3PP Computers. For the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what 3PP could have stood for in relation to computers, and the next half hour or so I was in the car, I was thinking of all sorts of different combinations of words.

One that stuck out for me was ‘Penny Prophet’. At the time, I was one of those people who would allow themselves to get swept up into forum debates over rhetoric and assumption, although I felt I was one of the voices of reason who would fact check statements. However – engaging in a debate on the internet is always a losing proposition. Much like war, nobody really wins, especially with the volume of undeleted misinformation that gets spread around. Our need to preserve any and all data has lead to veritable hordes of incorrect ‘facts’ and backed up myths that people still readily believe.

While engaging in these debates, I noticed that a lot of people really just want to toss in their two cents, and then get the hell out before they answer…. and so, in my mind, at the time, with those conjuctions of thoughts around the name of a computer store and my experiences in forums, was born a tongue in cheek kind of nickname – 3pennyprophet.

I don’t actually use the image anywhere. I just like it.