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by farhang 3313 days ago
If anyone wrote that as a story, any editor would have insisted that the protagonist's name cannot be "Login".
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Hiro Protagonist[0] says hello from Cyberspace

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash#Plot_summary

Samo Login, which means Just Login (as in "just do it"). Quite amusing name :D It was deliberate, obviously.
Samo is Slovenian version of Sam. "samo" means "only"/"just" but pronounced a bit differently than Samo.
Login is a legit surname, though[0].

0: http://www.onomastikon.ru/proishogdenie-familii-login.htm (source in Russian)