1337 goes LIVE

Written by chi

Sunday, 03 August 2008 18:53

(1337LIVE.COM) - Sunday, August 3, 2008 the site went live using the Joomla v1.5 content management platform. The domain was purchased on July 31, 2008 after trying to whip up a domain that described technical support. The process of coming up with a domain name took some thought process considering "technical support" and the synonyms were already taken long ago. Sure, I could've settled on a .ORG or a .ME but I really wanted a .COM. That's when I went into old school hacker terminology. I remembered back in the 90's that hackers used the term "l33t" as a word for "elite." Borrowed from Urban dictionary:

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Hacker "Sp33k" for leet, or elite. Originating from 31337 "eleet", the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult, a hacker group, to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice, a notorious hacking program.

After some Google queries, I realized that the numbers 1337 were more popular a term for "elite" than the letter number combination or any other combo for that matter. Of course 1337.com was taken long ago but a Godaddy.com suggestion struck my fancy - 1337LIVE. It was short, sweet and easy to remember thus a domain was born.

At the moment, I'm faced with how to organize the broad spectrum of technology. So instead of trying to come up with pre-set categories, I'll just dump a ton of the content and see where the pieces may fall because the content is what really matters and as long as we have the above search feature, manual categorization becomes less critical.

Last Updated ( Monday, 04 August 2008 07:16 )

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