Back when I was in high school (that was 10 years ago!), the Internet was just new. But I had the foresight to look into my future and come up with possible names for websites that will sound cool (or so I thought they were cool). It amuses me to think that over 10 years have passed since then but the forces working today are somewhat the same. We may have Facebook, Twitter and Posterous now but 10 years ago, the Internet was already revolutionizing how we operate our businesses. And it still is.
As YOU can see in the names below, my last entry was hungrypeople dot com. I cannot remember what fascinated me about the name. But who would have thought that 10 years after, I would find this list while also reading Jonathan Fields' revolutionary book Career Renegade and got inspired to start my blog, right here, right now. And so I did. HungryPeople's birthday is October 4, 2009.
Again, it's kind of amusing to think of our blogs as our babies. But indeed they are. Like our babies at home or on Sims, we do tend to our blogs on a day to day basis. We enjoy writing our hearts' out and taking a peek now and then. We get overjoyed when people comment on the blog however negative (it means someone is actually reading it!). And yes, we try to edit as much as we can.
Blogging has become a way of life for most people. But as for me, I'm relatively new. My relationship to blogging has been on and off at best. I fear commitments. Something my friends would attest to. But hopefully, this time around with YOUR help I can build the HungryPeople blog to deliver something fresh, something unique and something compelling for YOU to read on and come back for.
Thank YOU for reading this far. YOU are free to take any of the names that YOU like. Just be sure to include me in the footnotes when YOU'RE building the site of YOUR dreams. As YOU can see with my example, it's never to late to blog.
Before I close, I'm actually going to talk about what the title above is all about. Picking HungryPeople was the best choice I guess. As YOU can see, aside from being on my list 10 years ago. In my readings, one of my favorites quotes came from Steve Jobs' speech during the 2005 Stanford Graduation and I never forgot how he ended it: “Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.” HungryPeople is for anyone who is hungry for something in their lives – so the name is a match with a twist. But the clincher was having a short election on Facebook and HungryPeople won 2/3s of the vote. So there YOU are – the secret to naming a website that catches attention is to test possible names in YOUR community. They're the ones who's going to read it anyway. If it's good for them, it's good for everybody (or at least a majority).
Cool Names for Future Websites (circa 1998)
http://www.stupidmaniacs dot com
http://www.growlingmonkeys dot com
http://www.morons dot com
http://www.smellyshoes dot com – This is actually my favorite. =) Why? Because sometimes our shoes smell a bit but we still love putting it on anyway, am I right?
http://www.peoplewholovetofart dot com
http://www.peoplewholove2fart dot com
http://www.laughinghyenas dot com
http://www.laughinggods dot com
http://www.lifesavingbreath dot com
http://www.smellymouths dot com
http://www.badbreath dot com
http://www.anothercornysite dot com
http://www.coolcrazypeople dot net
http://www.jokinggorilla dot com
http://www.mockingbirds dot com
http://www.takeovers dot net
http://www.cornypeople dot com
http://www.hungrypeople dot com
What will YOU add to the list? We'd love to hear it!!!
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