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    urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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    A little thread on the Urbit ‘logo’ —

    11:13 AM - 18 Jun 2019
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    • dchem PsyChrypto 𝕮𝖑𝖆𝖘𝖘𝖎𝖈 𝕯𝖔𝖓𝖆𝖑𝖉 /=base=/lib/jose.hoon (fictional multiplayer character) Ether.gush.hose [twigwam.eth] urbit live George Ohwell Brady Swenson
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      2. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        In Urbit, every node has a name that’s both a piece of cryptographic property and a routable network address. These names look like ~sun or ~marzod or ~ravmel-ropdyl.

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      3. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        Each of these names is just a number. ~sun is 15. ~ravmel-ropdyl is 4,391,936.

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      4. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        Azimuth, our Ethereum contracts, store a list of who owns which names.

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      5. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        And Arvo, our OS, lets you send packets to any of these names.

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      6. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        The scheme for encoding these names is called ‘@p’ — it’s our algorithm for making numbers both pronounceable and memorable.

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      7. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        We prefix every @p with a ~ to make it clear that you’re looking at a @p representation of a number. It was probably related to the use of ~ for the home directory, but no one can remember exactly why.

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      8. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        There’s some deep nerd memory that will always connect ~ to ‘user’. Perhaps someone else can dig up exactly where this started. Does it start with the home directory in Unix?

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      9. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        That would have been somewhat impossible. So, we thought, a character could work. Something that could be printed in the command line.

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      10. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        We used to call Urbit nodes ‘ships’. So there was some thought to make it somehow nautical.

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      11. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        We tried a few weird UTF-8 options. For a while we almost used triangle that Zeit ended up using, since it looked a bit like a sail.

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      12. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        The ~ just fit. It’s about the user, it vaguely resembles the sea and it naturally appears all over the place in our interfaces.

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      13. urbit‏Verified account @urbit 18 Jun 2019
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        At the end of the day, should infrastructure be ‘branded’? Probably not. Great infrastructure is invisible.

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