In my recent interviews with Cornfedtech, I discussed the origin of the name “ForkBombr” and neglected to tell the whole story, as I was just reminded of by Kevin Lipe. Here’s the crux of the matter:
Well, I have to admit that “logic bomb” sounded cooler to me, but I figured “Fork Bomber” would make a better blog title. I was right. This was about the time that Flickr and a few other “Web 2.0” sites were first starting to pop up, and they were all missing vowels from their names. I figured I’d be a smart aleck and call my blog “Fork Bombr.**” The site went live. Eventually I got a tumblelog and decided to move Fork Bombr there. I got a hosting account and registered the domain name a couple years later and started blogging there in the summer of 2007.