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It was a joke on multiple levels. The founder was Rusty. Rusty -> rust -> corrosion -> kuro5shin. The second level was that it was a reference to Neal Stephenso
by jonathankoren 11y ago
It was a joke on multiple levels. The founder was Rusty. Rusty -> rust -> corrosion -> kuro5shin. The second level was that it was a reference to Neal Stephenson's Sno Crash character Da5id character. The pseudo-Japanese and l33t-speak spelling was did give it a a cyberpunk flair.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ybSFU9aDzsoC&pg=PA154&lpg=PA154&dq=kuro5hin+faq+name&source=bl&ots=94uMWwKTVR&sig=kU3aiEolGgfkGBu6SNRkcQJ2D6o&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ4eWe_rrMAhUU1mMKHUnXBVAQ6AEIIzAC#v=onepage&q=kuro5hin%20faq%20name&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=ybSFU9aDzsoC&pg=PA154&lpg=...
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