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Post #65672 by Tiki-bot on Fri, Dec 19, 2003 2:22 PM
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"Tiki-bot" was derived from "Artbot". What the hell's an Artbot? I don't know, but in '96 I needed a name for my 3D art & animation business. I wanted it to be short, distictive and easy to remember. At that time, "bots" were all the rage on the web: search-bots, seek-bots, kill-bots, etc., so I figured why not "Artbot". It sounds weird at first, but I bet "Microsoft" sounded foreign to people when it was founded. "Tiki-bot" is the logical extension of that name, but with a hyphen so people know to separate the words. I really like it, though, because I love space/sci-fi stuff and tiki! I'm a geek, so I have both domain names: |