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The Origins of the Apache Project Name
"The Apache group was formed around a number of people who provided patch files that had been written for NCSA httpd 1.3. The result after combining them was A PAtCHy server."
https://web.archive.org/web/19970415054031/http://www.apache.org/info.html
- mtmail 9y agoThe pun was added later to the website, but it's not the origin of the name. "The name was widely believed to be a pun on 'A Patchy Server' [...] but in a 2000 interview, Brian Behlendorf, one of the creators of Apache, set the record straight: 'The name literally came out of the blue. I wish I could say that it was something fantastic, but it was out of the blue.'" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server#Name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_HTTP_Server#Name