Randall posted 13 sketches that night from 8:34 pm to 8:46 pm. The first sketches were posted Friday, September 30, 2005. Xkcd began as a series of Randall Munroe's hand-drawn sketches which were first posted on Randall's LiveJournal account named xkcd_drawings. It has also been noted that when xkcd is typed on a Persian QWERTY keyboard, you get طنزی, which means satirical, sarcastic and comic.Īlso, XKCD are consecutive letters when typed on a DVORAK keyboard. However according to Munroe himself, this is a coincidence.Īlso, “cd” has rumored to mean “comic database”. The book is also referenced in 548: Kindle. In April 2005 the film adaptation opened, the same year in which Randall later posted his first comics to LiveJournal. The value may be significant since this is the answer given to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything by the supercomputer in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. However, it has been noted that if each letter of the alphabet is mapped to 1 through 26, the sum of the values for X, K, C, and D is equal to 42. In his Google-speech, Randall said that xkcd originated as a previously unused random 4 letter string which he used, e.g., as his account name on various internet services. Randall Munroe, In an interview with redhat.Īccording to the xkcd FAQ, the name "xkcd" doesn't stand for anything.
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