I miss 1.0 where there was only one other character with my name and there was no cross-server queue. lol. (and the other character was created way after mine, too and as far as I remember they never played after about 2 months in)

people do recognize my name, but that's because they either know the song and have associations with it - or they knew someone with the name in another game (though granted that person from another game could very well be me since I used the name since UO, provided it was available. hehe)