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The most annoying thing is the name. Putty is a well known SSH client and terminal emulator. On seeing the name WebPutty I'd believed Putty had been ported to

The most annoying thing is the name. Putty is a well known SSH client and terminal emulator. On seeing the name WebPutty I'd believed Putty had been ported to a web interface.

tghw 15y ago
That's not a question. :)
- frogtown 15y ago
  OK, i'll bite. How did the product get the name, WebPutty? No need to answer if this question is wasting useful development time.
  - tghw 15y ago
    It's just the idea of making the web, specifically your site, a little more malleable, that you can quickly morph how it looks.
benatkin 15y ago
I disagree. Prefixing names with "Web" is common but not pervasive. "Putty" is just an English word. BTW the SSH client is actually called PuTTY.
ComputerGuru 15y ago
Same here. Would have just upvoted, but upvote counts aren't visible and people are replying to disagree. I figured this was a web-based SSH terminal, which is pretty cool. Adding "Web" prefix to a popular product's name pretty clearly implies a web port.
- johnyzee 15y ago
  First thing I thought, I was quite confused.
freehunter 15y ago
I had never heard of WebPutty until this post, and when I saw the headline I got excited that I could install PuTTY and use it in my browser. I understand where the devs got the name as explained in the post down below this, but even clever names need to have some consideration of existing product names.