chyron | ˈkīrän |
noun trademark
an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.Oh. Okay then.
How’d you choose your username?
I basically took it from a movie. The rest of the relevant explanation is a dumb story because the movie is awful and I was a teenager with silly ideas.
The movie I took it from is Lawnmower Man 2, and the primary turns-out-to-be-the-antagonist is going to use the “Chiron chip” to take over the world.
I didn’t know how it was spelled until I already picked the name and started using it everywhere.
I would like to honestly say it’s because Chiron is the name of the centaur who trains Hercules (and Jason, et al.) because that sounds cooler but it wouldn’t be true.
My friend and I liked the first movie (which is not awful) because it was about using VR to improve the capabilities of the human mind. (Nevermind that the person who gains mental abilities goes psycho and kills everyone.) I always thought the sequel was bad, but I just liked the name Chyron [sic] so I took it for myself.