{"id":96,"date":"2006-01-01T06:10:14","date_gmt":"2006-01-01T12:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/single-character-email-addresses-at-google-the-new-status-symbol\/"},"modified":"2006-01-01T06:10:14","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T12:10:14","slug":"single-character-email-addresses-at-google-the-new-status-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/2006\/01\/single-character-email-addresses-at-google-the-new-status-symbol\/","title":{"rendered":"Single character email addresses at Google: The new status symbol?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>a@google.com, b@google.com, &#8230; How cool? I haven&#8217;t seen any company giving out such short e-mail address to their employees. It&#8217;s nothing less than a prized possession of a 2-character domain name.<br \/>\nWho is getting these e-mail addresses at Google? You have to be an inventor of some programming language or a computer science theorist to get one; <a href=\"http:\/\/herpolhode.com\/rob\/\">Robert Pike<\/a> has one. (Rob has a famous Unix Programming text book to his credit, one of the computer engineering bibles)<br \/>\nSo far, b, c, e, f, g, h, i, j, k and r have been confirmed to be taken; at least, that&#8217;s what my puny little investigation has inferred, for others, I&#8217;m waiting for my new year greetings to be reciprocated.<br \/>\nHow did I get here? Well, I was looking for some UTF-8 conversion routines when I landed onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.bell-labs.com\/who\/ken\/\">Ken Thompson<\/a>&#8216;s page, and somehow got pushed around onto Rob&#8217;s page.<br \/>\nInvestigative journalism? Not a bad <i>bullet item<\/i> for new year&#8217;s resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>a@google.com, b@google.com, &#8230; How cool? I haven&#8217;t seen any company giving out such short e-mail address to their employees. It&#8217;s nothing less than a prized possession of a 2-character domain name. Who is getting these e-mail addresses at Google? You have to be an inventor of some programming language or a computer science theorist to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khaitan.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}