I grew up in a very rural area of the southern U.S. back in the 80s. The internet wasn’t quite a thing yet, so my window to the world outside my small town was our mailbox, located at Rural Route Box 464. I had pen pal letters, catalogs, magazines and comic books delivered in the mail and it was pure joy to run down the dusty road and check for something new every day.
The internet became my new window to the world, so it just seemed natural to use “Box464” as my address. Even got the domain!
I blinded a cyclops and got stuck with it.
It’s my name :)
i wonder how many people were lucky enough to get their name as their username
I’d wager most people on Lemmy don’t want their real name anywhere close to their shitposting.
Biology teacher in HS mentioned off-hand that apparently chickens can climb trees. I searched for images online, thought they were funny, and made it my handle.
@treechicken they fly up into them.
That makes much more sense now that I think about it. I think debate about whether chickens could fly was the reason this came up way back then actually…
@treechicken normal healthy chickens can fly in a limited way, eg to chase insects or to get up into trees (they like sleeping in trees because it’s safer) or on the roofs of barns etc.
People who keep poultry sometimes clip their wings (cut off the flight feathers) to stop them doing stuff like that.
Factory-farmed chickens are too deformed.
