Codenames for post-2.0 Discourse releases

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Well, it’s finally happened. We’ve worked on Discourse long enough to have ten official releases in slightly under four years! :tada:

Discourse 1.0 – Aug 26, 2014
Discourse 2.0 – May 31, 2018

Harkening to classic roman/greek era definitions of “forum” …

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… we chose the list of ten Attic orators way back when to tag the releases with something kinda fun and Discourse-y.

Try to imagine this person is pressing the Reply button with his free hand:

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And this is also why our staff pictures are styled as classic marble statues / busts.

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Discourse is fundamentally about human communication, which funnily enough literally translates to “running to and fro”:

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So we now need a new set of release codenames, which I’ll describe in a reply.

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What is Discourse, if not a MIRACULOUS INCREDIBLE INVENTION THAT FURTHERED HUMAN COMMUNICATION!

So combining these two lists handily takes us through 3.0 and even a bit beyond:

  • petroglyph 2.1
  • pictogram 2.2
  • ideogram 2.3
  • writing 2.4
  • alphabet 2.5
  • telegraph 2.6
  • telephone 2.7
  • radio 2.8
  • television 2.9
  • videotelephony 3.0
  • satellite 3.1
  • internet 3.2

To make it a bit more interesting we will be selecting specific examples of said innovation, rather than the general concept, so rather than

  • Discourse 2.1 Petroglyph
  • Discourse 2.2 Pictogram
  • Discourse 2.6 Telegraph

we will have

If anyone wants to propose specific examples for releases 2.3 - 2.5, or 2.7 - 3.2 feel free to do so :wink:

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For Discourse 2.5 I propose Ugarit
as it’s the region of the Ugaritic Scripts, a better known antecedent to our modern day alphabet.

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Anyone opposed to calling 2.9 Nipkow, and 3.1 Sputnik?

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  • ideogram 2.3 – Maybe ‘arobase’?
  • television 2.9 – Slow-scan although Nipkow Disk is also a great choice, and Slow-scan can go to videotelephony as well (I have fond memories of poetry readings in the mid-90s with the Electronic Café in Santa Monica from the basement of a cybercafe in Paris using a PicturePhone mod I and flashing puppets that were stored in the basement…)
  • videotelephony 3.0 – PicturePhone. While I’m at it, I also remember a really funny 1996 experience with a 5 ISDN lines PictureTel (3 were used for video, and 2 for audio): we were waiting for a call and the lines started blinking. It took about a minute for all five to light up and show the picture of a corporate guy who looks at us, a bit puzzled, and goes: “Sorry, wrong number.” before he hanged up.
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@codinghorror I’ve noticed that 2.3 was given a name. Has a list of names been set in stone yet for releases not yet named?

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Feel free to suggest names for future releases, following the patterns defined above.

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Discourse 2.4 Calligraphy

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Some notes on the history of the Latin alphabet

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I don’t think that’s quite a fit … 2.4 is “writing”, so going with

Some idea of timeline:
2.1 petroglyph Bhimbetka ~30,000 years ago
2.2 pictogram La Pasiega ~15,000 years ago
2.3 ideogram Vinča ~4500 BC
2.4 writing Cuneiform ~2600 BC

Next up, alphabet is also looking clearly Greek, at 800 BC

By at least the 8th century BCE the Greeks borrowed the Phoenician alphabet and adapted it to their own language, creating in the process the first “true” alphabet, in which vowels were accorded equal status with consonants. According to Greek legends transmitted by Herodotus, the alphabet was brought from Phoenicia to Greece by Cadmos. The letters of the Greek alphabet are the same as those of the Phoenician alphabet, and both alphabets are arranged in the same order.

So let’s plan ahead for future releases :partying_face:
2.5 alphabet Greek 800 BC
2.6 telegraph Baudot 1870 AD
2.7 telephone Strowger 1891 AD
2.8 radio Audion 1906 AD
2.9 television Nipkow 1920 AD
3.1 satellite Telstar 1962 AD
3.2 videotelephony PicturePhone 1964 AD
3.3 internet Arpanet 1983 AD
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The very first coded symbols – this would be ~15,000 years ago in the “pictogram” era, our previous release 2.2.

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История буквы W

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Удивительно, но слова forum (форум), forest (лес), foreign (иностранное), forfeit (потеря), hors d’oeuvre (закуска) и thyroid (щитовидная железа) происходят от одного корня: for, означающего «на открытом воздухе, снаружи».

  • Форум в Древней Греции располагался на открытом воздухе
  • Лес, очевидно, находится снаружи
  • Иностранец — это человек, пришедший из-за пределов границ вашей страны
  • Лишиться чего-либо (forfeit) из-за проступка, но изначально forfeit означал сам проступок: что-то выходящее за рамки приемлемого поведения
  • Hors d’oeuvre — это небольшая закуска, подаваемая вне основного приёма пищи

Все эти слова происходят от праиндоевропейского корня dhwer, означающего «дверь» (дверь → на открытом воздухе). Щитовидная железа получила своё название, потому что она отдалённо напоминает форму двери… суффикс -oid всегда означает «похожий на», как в словах humanoid (гуманоид, похожий на человека), android (андроид, похожий на человека) и asteroid (астероид, похожий на звезду).

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