{"id":1,"date":"2011-08-01T16:36:16","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T16:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phenomenologybooks.com\/blog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2012-01-10T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T15:40:56","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.phenomenologybooks.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/01\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Etymological Derivation of the Moniker ‘Sryandrack’"},"content":{"rendered":"

In ancient times, during the era of DOS (Disk Operating Systems), floppy disks really were floppy; and file names\u00a0were required\u00a0to consist of eight characters or fewer.\u00a0 I had labeled a disk “sryandra” short for “S. Ryan, Drive A:.”\u00a0 I thought that Sryandra<\/em> sounded like a cool name, but too much like a girl’s name, so I put a “ck” at the end of it.\u00a0 Hence the nickname Sryandrack<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I can even remember farther back, using a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitor at my local High School back in the 1970’s on a time share computer system where it would take several minutes just to enter one line of code written in the BASIC or ForTran programming languages.\u00a0 The wonders of Technology!<\/p>\n

The Blogs that follow on this post shall be primarily about Philosophy and Science, and not about Politics or Religion.<\/p>\n

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