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It was an exercise in quirky branding on my part - http://bvckup.tumblr.com/post/3283335299/how-bvckup-got-its-name http://bvckup.tumblr.com/post/3283335299/how
by latitude 12y ago
It was an exercise in quirky branding on my part - http://bvckup.tumblr.com/post/3283335299/how-bvckup-got-its-name http://bvckup.tumblr.com/post/3283335299/how-bvckup-got-its-.... To my excuse it was almost 5 years ago, long before using "V" in place of a vowel became mainstream. And, in retrospect, I should've picked something a bit more pronounceable.
In Svpply and Svbtle it simply stands for "u", which is a deferral to how Romans would've written it.
- Flenser 12y agoIt's a happy accident, but I'd assumed it was because b,v, and c are right next to each other on the keyboard, making the first 3 characters before it autocompletes easy to type.