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I hope we keep it. It matches the maps I have from 7th grade.
by w8rbt 7y ago
I hope we keep it. It matches the maps I have from 7th grade.
- input_sh 7y agoI hope you keep it too. It's been like a decade and I still feel sad that .yu is gone.
- whoopdedo 7y agoBiggest tragedy of the early internet was losing .oz (Which was resurrected in the OpenNIC alternate DNS.)
- EugeneOZ 7y agoGolden words
- reaperducer 7y agoI strongly agree. When I take notes and put files in geographic directories, I still use .oz.
- joombaga 7y agoHow was it used?
- twic 7y agoI'm guessing that's Australia.
- zizee 7y agoCorrect. Fun fact: For many years after the rest of Melbourne University moved to unimelb.edu.au the computer science department kept the domain cs.mu.oz as a nod to that history (and that they were one of the first institutions in the world to be part of the fledgling internet). I was a little sad to see that quirky disappear.
- abeppu 7y ago_But_ when Yugoslavia broke up, we got Montenegro with .me, which makes me smile.
- necovek 7y agoAnd I am sure Rust folks are happy there is a place to call their own (.rs for Republic of Serbia, since .s[erb] was taken long ago :).
- vasili111 7y agoI hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union.
- mciancia 7y agoMaybe remove history books, they also remind people about this.
- vasili111 7y agoRemoving .su != burning books. I will tell you opposite: we should write in history books the truth about what in realty USSR was and teach children with it so tragedies like USSR never happen again.
- johnisgood 7y agoHe is not saying that "removing .su == burning books", even though both actions lead to permanent destruction of something, I suppose. > I hope we will NOT keep it. It reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union. Replace "it" with "history books". You hope that we will not "keep" anything that: "reminds you how your country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union". By this reasoning alone we should not keep a lot of things (including history books) because a lot of things may remind people of something horrible. If you ask me, this is not a good basis of or justification for not keeping that something, which could be ".su", or "history books", or anything else.
- vasili111 7y ago>Replace "it" with "history books". I am against even burning history books from USSR that glorify USSR. BUT we should not use those books to teach history now.
- johnisgood 7y agoIn which case it essentially boils down to: X reminds me of something bad, but I am personally OK with keeping it around. Y reminds me of something bad, too, but I am personally not OK with keeping it. All you did was being selective about it, but the underlying reason is essentially the same, you just apply it selectively based on your own values without considering anyone else's. Although, this does not seem to meet the seemingly only criterion: "reminds me how my country was occupied and annexed by Soviet Union". History books do that, but you do not seem to want to NOT keep them. So perhaps this is not the only criterion, there is something else. What is it? Could it be subjective value? If so, I still think that it is not a good reason to get rid of something because you have not found it valuable AND reminds you of something horrible.
- charles_f 7y agoReminds me of my 9th grade teacher who was refusing to call it USSR like everyone else and was insisting on saying "usre" (pronounced like a word). To this day still wondering if it was militant, or if she just read that on a map and thought it was a word.