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>they swiped the name "substack", which is a handle that's been used by open source hacker James Halliday Did they use the "substack" name because JH made it f
by jasode 7y ago
>they swiped the name "substack", which is a handle that's been used by open source hacker James Halliday
Did they use the "substack" name because JH made it famous? I've heard of the word "substack" before but I've never heard of James Halliday.
"substack" was in use for several decades before 2006:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=substack&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=substack&year_...
- ChristianBundy 7y agoI don't mean that they used Substack because JH was using it, but a quick web search of the company name would make it obvious that there was a naming conflict.