Is it just random letters arrived to by keyboard mashing like a lot of federated websites seem, or is there any thought behind it?
Is it just random letters arrived to by keyboard mashing like a lot of federated websites seem, or is there any thought behind it?
I found this
(Ernest Wiśniewski is the creator of kbin)
It also explains “magazines”.
Ernest has actually said that the name “magazine” isn’t gun related and that it’s a reference “to the virtual edition of a late 90s gaming newspaper” (see this thread and my other comment for the full story)
Someone in that thread also explains that in Polish the names are different:
EDIT: Didn’t word good.
This just changed my whole worldview.
🤯
Great. Now we gotta Google what a Karabin Gun is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbine
but like… why tho?
Because of the rapid fire content, I guess?
shrug
It’s such a bad domain name
It’s Polish for “rifle”.
so it’s a “gun rifle”? why in the world would they name a platform after it?
It was a play on words, from /sbin. More info in the top thread.
Not sure, perhaps he liked the domain karab.in. But honestly, there’s plenty of weirder names out there, even among the biggest brands.
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why tho? why is that the name of the platform then?
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It isn’t. It has nothing to do with a gun
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lol
Is he?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kbsp_wz._1938M
This just happens to have the “karabin” in the name but it simply means a rifle.