A little thread on the Urbit ‘logo’ —
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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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‘Home’, perfect
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The association does come from the Unix home directory, and the reason that ~ was used for Home is the coincidence that the two happened to be typed using the same key on one of the popular terminal keyboards at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde#Directories_and_URLs …pic.twitter.com/gDUuy4uSWp
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