Origin Stories

Costas wonders where “whump” comes from.

He found wump.com, who provides an origin for his nickname.

Mine’s simple, when I was on Peacenet back in the early 1990′s, the system assigned me the user ID and email address “whump”: William Humphries. The moniker stuck with me from then on.

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