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I'm curious: how can this be from 2006 when Stack Overflow was (according to Wikipedia at least) launched in 2008? I checked because it didn't feel that old.
by Timothee 15y ago
I'm curious: how can this be from 2006 when Stack Overflow was (according to Wikipedia at least) launched in 2008?
I checked because it didn't feel that old.
- dreeves 15y agoOh, note the parts in brackets are my interjections (from our now internet-decades of hindsight).
- Timothee 15y agoOh I see. I didn't understand until I clicked the link at the top that the different criteria, and thus the images, were not from pg. I was a bit surprised that Viaweb ended up all green, but it wasn't pg's choice, just yours, correct? :) I disagree on evocability and verbability actually. One thing with verbability though, is that it's probably hard to predict. I don't think it would have been easy to predict that you could "facebook" someone.
- dreeves 15y agoYeah, that's just me with the colors. I tried to justify my scheme in my own post about naming: http://messymatters.com/nominology http://messymatters.com/nominology Good point about the trickiness in predicting verbability. As for the evocativity of "viaweb" I think it seems generic now but at the time it was more novel: conduct your business via the web. Wow!
- BerislavLopac 15y agoI just submitted your article to HN at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3180861 -- I think you are too modest! ;)