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by Locke1689 5668 days ago
Yup, I think user accounts are recycled. It's got its benefits and its downsides. I think it will be interesting to see 80 years from now. I guess non-recycled usernames will just get more esoteric?
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Yeah, there are a lot of characters in the full unicode set.
There are far fewer human-readable combinations. There are even fewer with fewer than 10 characters.