Your First Screen Names, Illustrated

Remember your first screen name? Before you were worried about your "personal brand" and had a professional-facing "[email protected]" address?

Those were the good old days. The Internet seemed more casual then. Our online identities were never meant to stay with us forever. They were meant to be more fun. Sure, they were often naive, but also more whimsical than what you'd expect to show up on a resume.

So a few weeks ago we asked you to submit yours to us. What was your first screen name? We even offered up some Mashable staff examples ("NakedSushiNight," anyone?) to get you started. And we had Kiersten Essenpreiss illustrate them.

We received hundreds of submissions…
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