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by swies 5460 days ago
These are nice ideas, thanks for the feedback. The chemical element angle is one I definitely thought about when we first looked at the name.
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The "ni' night" imagery doesn't really work if the official pronunciation is "NIN-ite", not "NI-nite".

I had assumed the name was "NINE-ite" until I read the Ninite blog:

http://blog.ninite.com/post/620277259/how-ninite-was-named-b...