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I don't find 'xkcd' particularly easy to pronounce or remember. Given its target audience, it works for xkcd. Geeks like geeky sounding, hard to pronounce name
by Samuel_Michon 14y ago
I don't find 'xkcd' particularly easy to pronounce or remember.
Given its target audience, it works for xkcd. Geeks like geeky sounding, hard to pronounce names (like gnustep, xmlhttprequest and PostgreSQL). If a name like 'xkcd' were chosen for a consumer service, it probably wouldn't work very well.
- jtheory 14y agoThe name was chosen explicitly to be difficult to pronounce and remember.
- sneak 14y agoNo, it wasn't. I named my company in the same way Mr. Munroe named his webcomic: a four-letter domain available in .com, .net, and .org.
- jtheory 14y agohttp://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/xkcd/ http://www.redhat.com/magazine/025nov06/features/xkcd/ "Actually the domain name came after the instant messaging screen name, which I picked late one night. Five, six, maybe seven years ago, I was tired of having names that meant something. Skywalker4, Animorph7... I wanted to pick a name that I wouldn’t get tired of. That would just always mean me. So I just went down combinations of letters that weren’t taken, until I could find one that didn’t have any meaning, didn’t have any pronunciation, and didn’t seem like an obvious acronym for anything."