I feel like this will probably dox myself but it’s such a niche case that it’s highly unlikely. Anyways, I had a few other usernames that I’ve used throughout the past for various games and accounts like Maplestory, message boards, emails etc. but the biggest problem with a lot of them was that they were all in that 13 year old pseudo edgy way where as a fully grown adult, I would be somewhat embarrassed to be called “Protovirus” online. Especially with the rise of communication in online games, it seemed like having something relatively easy, one word and relatively age neutral was ideal.

While that's how my username stuck around, that isn’t how my username came to be. The short version of a not so long story is that in high school, we had to do a presentation in our English class and I guess in our group, we chose to do something on Hamlet. Wanting to take a modern twist on the play and playing the character based on Hamlet, Nhamlet was a clever mix of my name and Hamlet. For whatever reason it stuck with me throughout university and I began to use it more and more often. I suppose if I were to tie back to the online gaming community thing, the fun side is that I’ve been getting called ‘Ham’ more often than not which is a fun way of shortening it. The worst part has been the number of people who are reading my tag in multiplayer games ‘N-Hamlet” like it’s supposed to be two separate pieces. Oh well, I’ve kind of given up on even trying to correct people so it is what it is.