A little thread on the Urbit ‘logo’ —
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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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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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We used to call Urbit nodes ‘ships’. So there was some thought to make it somehow nautical.
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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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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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At the end of the day, should infrastructure be ‘branded’? Probably not. Great infrastructure is invisible.
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