[superjared]

Reminds me of Slashdot

> The name "Slashdot" came from a somewhat "obnoxious parody of a URL" – when Malda registered the domain, he desired to make a name that was "silly and unpronounceable" – try pronouncing out, 'h-t-t-p-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-org'".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot

[qingcharles]

DOT COM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1SpFt7zJUM

[bitwize]

Welcome to Homestarrunner.net! It's dot com!

[StableAlkyne]

Neat! I always thought it was a reference to the `/.` you might type in Unix

[readyplayernull]

You mean "./"

[StableAlkyne]

I really do mean the root directory! As in, a kinda joke that meant the site was a central place for news, so it would act as a root directory for that

[littlestymaar]

What is the dot for in your `/.`?

[Smaug123]

It's what you'd use as an arg to `cp` if you wanted to copy the contents rather than the directory, for example.

[NikkiA]

The self-referential directory inode.

[xerox13ster]

h-t-t-p-s colon whack whack slash dot dot com