celluloid / reel

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Rename Reel. The self-answering Issue. #192

Closed digitalextremist closed 9 years ago

digitalextremist commented 9 years ago

Before we have massive uptake and take over > 51% of the HTTP/HTTP/WS/WSS/SSE market share...

I've been thinking about the type of strategic/organizational issue that came up in celluloid/celluloid-dns#5 which hits the same issue I've been seeing with Reel ... it really ought to be either:

I can't stand behind it as a word... so the whole thing falls apart right there...

The end-result answer is that it really should be celluloid/reel because, "celluloid" means:

"A colorless flammable material made from nitrocellulose and camphor and used to make photographic film."

... and Reel is where that raw material results in a presentation-level display... in stills, in streams, etc. Whatever the hell the web is, Reel does describe. So it's a better generic term than web and it is consistent with the underlying brand.

Open, closed.

tarcieri commented 9 years ago

"A dizzying lifetime... reeling by on celluloid" -- Rush / Between The Wheels

Enough said :wink: