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curiousuburb
Antimatter Man
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: that interweb thing
 
2005-06-08, 16:19

While the concept of 'evergreen' perpetually-relevant writing is nice, I don't think we should discount things that may make sense now but lose meaning as years go by...
Domains change (what if we'd had one called AppleInsider for Jack), and there's no guarantee URLs will even look the same decades from now (telephones used to be Pennsylvania 6-5000 before they went to 7, 8 and 10 digits).

My point is that we shouldn't rule out concepts based solely on "no one will get it in x years".

If we're getting a 'school' of fish as a garoupa (pun!)

AppleNova - on one line works
dot com - on the line underneath would work too.

Whether or not our URL will exist or even look the same in 2020 isn't necessarily a deal-breaker for me, since in the interim folks might connect the dots and experience the community life in The House that Jack Built.

Given that attitude (as I expressed in chat last week), I don't have a problem with adding some humour that again, might not be as meaningful x years hence, but will bring a chuckle to the current generation.

OMGWTFBBQ!!

while meaningless to many, was germane to Jack and may be comedy gold for geeks.

As for getting names to fit that friends can connect, how about...

JackRFrostIV
aka LoCash,

aka M3dJack
aka corner4j

TurboRodent,
MarmotDeacon

or various mix and match combinations based on which name rings the most bells.
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