FutureMillennium Web.net

What's with the Future Millennium?

29th October 2008

Ever since I've decided my nickname would be FutureMillennium back in 2002, I've been using Google to check what sites talk about me, because my nickname was unique. Any results that appeared in that search were always somehow related to me, because no one else had used this name or even the phrase “Future Millennium”.

Speaking of which, how did this nickname come to life anyway? Well, I was originally using just “Millennium” as my nickname (now don't ask me how that came to life, I'm using it since 11, although the correct spelling settled later), but when I first got to create an account on the Internet back in 2002 (yes, it was WinCustomize), guess what happened? Correct – Millennium was taken. It's always been a very popular site, so I wasn't surprised. I've thought about what to put before or after “Millennium” to make it unique, I think I tried stuff like “New” or “Neo”, but those were taken too (or maybe I just didn't like them, I don't remember anymore), so I ended up with “Future”. And for 2 reasons, too: 1) I like the future (more than the present or the past) and 2) the name “Millennium” actually comes from a story I've been thinking about since I'm 11 that's named “Future War” (so yeah, Future War + Millennium = FutureMillennium, right?).

What's been happening lately is that I'm noticing new sites popping up in the Google results for my nickname. Most of them speak of the future millennium (those are usually either Christian or economically oriented, or both) and there are some people that don't care that I've been using this nickname for over 6 years now and just decided to use it. What's more, suddenly there are even domain names that do contain “FutureMillennium” – FutureMillennium.com (Creation Date: 2008-08-27) and FutureMillennium.net (Creation Date: 2008-01-11) are those I know of. The first one seems like an obvious case of domain name speculation (“Hey, I owe your name now, you pay up or you'll never have it!”) and the second… uh… I'm not really sure. But come on, Future Millennium? Compare this with my original site – Millennium Web.net (Creation Date: 2004-08-13).

So what's this now? Has it taken people 7 years to figure out it's the future millennium (that's 7 years from 2001)? And why have they never spoken about it before (at least on the Internet)? Or has just Google updated their search algorithm so that it shows up sites that weren't there before? (I don't think that's the case, all the new results are what they are to the Internet – new.)

I'm not mad, but it's bothering me a little. I've always been used to these Google results being dedicated solely to me. And now it's filling up with crap that has no relevance to me. (And what's worse, it's no good crap! It's just crap crap.) Also, they took my domain name. Seriously, people. My domain name. Who'd buy a domain with someone's nickname in it? Come on! I understand that Groovy was taken (and that it was and still is empty), but FutureMillennium?

(Oh, I should update my photo on WinCustomize…)

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