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The Internet Alphabet (audobox.com)
24 points by willwhitney on Sept 20, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 16 comments



This turned out to be an interesting little game. I bet you can always tell a developer. Here's mine:

a: audobox.com

b: buzzfeed.com/emofly/eggs-in-exciting-holes (bookmarked for ideas)

c: calendar.google.com

d: dashboard.heroku.com

e: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Breaking_Bad_episodes (i _really_ can't ever remember where i am)

f: facebook.com

g: github.com/gtank

h: heroku.com

i: imgur.com

j: javagenesiscoffeeroasting.com/shop/ (delicious coffee near atlanta)

k: keithv.com (language models i used frequently)

l: localhost:9292 (yep, developer)

m: mail.google.com

n: news.ycombinator.com

o: ossl-test.herokuapp.com (buildpack test for ruby + new openssl)

p: plus.google.com

q: questionablecontent.net

r: reddit.com

s: smittenkitchen.com (i was really expecting stackoverflow here)

t: twitter.com

u: unsplash.com

v: vervecoffeeroasters.com

w: wikipedia.org

x: xda-developers.com

y: yelpingwithcormac.tumblr.com

z: zenpayroll.com


Check out Octane coffee in Atlanta if you haven't already. It's one of the things I miss about the city.


What's magic about port 9292? (Clearly I'm not a developer.)


It's the default port for running a local rack app (sort of a ruby-web-stuff middleware). For specific values of "developer" :)


Ahh makes sense.


In Chrome, "chrome://predictors/" gives you some interesting related information.



Fun idea!

A: altdevblogaday.com

B: bbs.archlinux.org

C: clarin.com // Argentinian news

D: distrowatch.com

E: edx.org

F: forums.gentoo.org

G: github.com // was expecting grooveshark

H: humblebundle.com // This is weird, I don't go there much

I: imgur.com

J: jblive.tv // Great shows, LAS, TechSNAP, etc.

K: khanacademy.org

L: lkml.org

M: mercadolibre.com.ar // Argentinian eBay

N: news.ycombinator.com

O: opengl-tutorial.org // Weird too

P: pcgamingwiki.com

Q: nothing

R: reddit.com // Totally unexpected!

S: store.steampowered.com

T: translate.google.com // My English is a bit rusty

U: usesthis.com // Also weird, not visited much.

V: vimeo.com // Really? I don't recall going here too much.

W: wolframalpha.com // Life saver

X: xkcd.com

Y: youtube.com

Z: zonaforo.meristation.com // Forum I used/use to visit


Well... not only was this entertaining for a bit, but it also reminded me of the existence of overapi.com, which is a good thing.

It's interesting how some of the (uncommon) letters bring up suggestions of sites I even don't remember ever visiting. In some cases it's even dead links.






although, to access AdSense, for example -- I type in 'ads'. for Analytics - 'anal'.


amazon.de (Yep, i'm from Germany)

bxxxx.xx (Censored, self-incriminating)

cplusplus.com

dominos.de (Now i'm hungry)

en.wikipedia.org

file:///E:/movdb/editor/editor.html (Private HTML/JS-Project i'm working on)

google.de

humblebundle.com (I like indie games)

images.google.com

jolicloud.com (Tested a couple of days ago, never used again)

kde.org

lavabit.com (Gone :( )

msdn.microsoft.com

news.ycombinator.com

omdbapi.com

portknox.net

qt-project.org

reddit.com

steampowered.com

traveltainment-group.com (this is where i work)

unlocker.emptyloop.com

vole.cc (should keep an eye on that)

www.webtravel.de (What the heck?... I have to talk to our WebDevs)

zattoo.com


nobody got aws.amazon.com for A?

almost my entire alphabet is taken over by internal tools with Web UIs.




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