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Title on HN should probably read "University of Cincinnati" rather than UC. Even I, a graduate of University of Cincinnati now first thought "University of Cali
by robbrown451 5y ago
Title on HN should probably read "University of Cincinnati" rather than UC. Even I, a graduate of University of Cincinnati now first thought "University of California." (Admittedly I live in California now)
- FirstLvR 5y agoCan you imagine us non Americans trying to remember this things...
- myself248 5y agoI just refer to everything by its domain name minus the suffix. There is no "U of M", there is "UMich" and "Memphis" and "UMT".
- fnord77 5y agoI'm impressed that University of Cincinnati snagged uc.edu
- makeitrain 5y agoWhen you invent the internet but forget to register your own domain... oops.
- anamax 5y agoThe University of California schools think of themselves as independent entities, independent entities that just happened to all pick the same school colors. berkeley.edu (where "University of CA" is a subtitle), ucla.edu, ucdavis.edu, etc.
- fnord77 5y agosometime later: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/ https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/
- dekhn 5y agoNo, this isn't the case at all. I attended UCSC (ucsc.edu), and then UCSF (ucsf.edu) and was a postdoc at UCB (berkeley.edu). They are fairly integrated in a lot of ways. The term itself "Berkeley" can be used in context so that people can tell you mean the University, not the city. That's rarer for the other schools. Also, Berkeley was the first real UC campus. I think Berkeley has its own bare domain because their name was registered before the UC naming conventions were established. I'm pretty sure it was the first or second name registered. https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9_16_5/history.html https://bind9.readthedocs.io/en/v9_16_5/history.html Not sure of that, though- in the old HOSTS.TXT predating DNS, UC Berkeley was called UCB, and the server ucbvax became ucbvax.berkeley.edu. I think it's funny now they teach classes at Berkeley about stuff (DNS, nuclear energy) and the research was done just 30-70 years ago right on the same spot!
- robbrown451 5y agoThey are more separate than University of Cincinnati is. If someone in California asks what college you go to, you don't say "UC"....you say "UC Berkeley" (or "Cal") or "UCLA" or the like. But you simply say "UC" if you are in Ohio and go to Univ of Cincinnati.
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- dang 5y agoThat's a good point and actually we usually take the institutional name out of these press releases. I've done so above now.