Ten years ago, when I first started spending a 
lot of time online, I was nine years old and 
deeply, deeply in love with Anne McCaffrey's Pern 
series.

My first email address had been through PINE mail 
and was just a mix of my first and last names.  
But eventually I wanted a Yahoo email address, as 
Yahoo was, at the time, the newest, coolest 
thing.  When it came time to sign up for one, I 
wanted 'Weyrwoman', as that was the title held by 
my favorite character in Pern- Lessa.  But that 
was already taken, so I went with Weyrlady.  I 
spent some time in chat rooms, made some friends, 
and followed them to message boards where I kept 
the same handle.  And, because so many people 
knew me as Weyrlady by then, I just kept it for 
everything else I joined.

There are a few places where I changed the name 
as appropriate- on the McCaffrey's own boards I 
use my real name, which sounds like a fantasy 
character anyway; on a couple RP's I use a random 
character name.  And here I started out, I think, 
as "Riddle" but kept forgetting it. ^^;  On eBay 
I'm 'theweyrlady' because I originally signed up 
for an account when I was 16 but completely 
forgot the password, and now I can't get into the 
account.

When I got my own domain name for my website, it 
just seemed logical to make it "dragonweyr.com" 
because where else would you find a weyrlady, but 
in a weyr? ^_^  That domain is mine for the next 
ten years, as a result of a promotion NS was 
doing a while back.

And... that's about it.  I love the name, it's 
part of who I am.  I respond to it just as 
quickly as my real name, and a few of my friends 
call me "Weyr" in real life. ^^;  I also love 
meeting people online who know where it came from-
 while I'm not as deeply in love with Pern as I 
once was, it's still an old favorite.