{"id":478,"date":"2006-02-07T22:29:50","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T20:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frenchfragfactory.net\/ozh\/archives\/2006\/02\/07\/how-delicious-got-its-name\/"},"modified":"2006-02-07T22:29:50","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T20:29:50","slug":"how-delicious-got-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/how-delicious-got-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How del.icio.us Got Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\">del.icio.us<\/a> was named ? You thought that was heavy and creative brainstorming ? Joshua Schachter, del.icio.us&#39; father, <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.del.icio.us\/pipermail\/discuss\/2006-January\/004767.html\">explains<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When .us became available, I wrote a quick script to figure out the shortest prefixes that would allow me to generate the most number of names:<br \/>\n<code>$ grep us$ \/usr\/dict\/words | sed 's\/.*\\(....\\)\\(us\\)$\/\\1.\\2\/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail<br \/>\n    6 aceo.us<br \/>\n    6 mino.us<br \/>\n    7 ario.us<br \/>\n    7 onio.us<br \/>\n    7 urio.us<br \/>\n    8 aneo.us<br \/>\n    8 orio.us<br \/>\n   10 itio.us<br \/>\n   14 icio.us<br \/>\n   18 acio.us<br \/>\n<\/code>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Heh. Those geeks are so funny :) (<a href=\"http:\/\/rasterweb.net\/raster\/2006\/01\/30\/naming-delicious\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How del.icio.us got its creative name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,2,100],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bash","tag-code","tag-delicious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetozh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}