# Codenames for post-2.0 Discourse releases **URL:** \ **Category:** Site feedback\ **Created:** [June 5, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/codenames-for-post-2-0-discourse-releases/89212 "2018-06-05T22:38:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
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Anyone opposed to calling 2.9 Nipkow, and 3.1 Sputnik? > **[Nipkow disk](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipkow_disk)** > > A Nipkow disk (sometimes Anglicized as Nipkov disk; patented in 1884), also known as scanning disk, is a mechanical, rotating, geometrically operating image scanning device, patented by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in Berlin. This scanning disk was a fundamental component in mechanical television, and thus the first televisions, through the 1920s and 1930s. > The device is a mechanically spinning disk of any suitable material (metal, plastic, cardboard, etc.), with a series of equally-distanced circular h... > **[Sputnik 1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1)** > > Sputnik 1 (/ˈspʌtnɪk, ˈspʊtnɪk/, Russian: Спутник-1, Satellite 1), often referred to as simply Sputnik, was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It sent a radio signal back to Earth for three weeks before its three silver-zinc batteries became depleted. Aerodynamic drag caused it to fall back into the atmosphere on 4 January 1958. > It was a polished metal sphere 58 c... --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/codenames-for-post-2-0-discourse-releases/89212)._