About: Hello World
March 30th, 2007It’s the title of debut blog posts everywhere. It’s a script output that coders familiarize themselves with early and often. What is “Hello World” though?
Read about its origin in this forum thread. Hello World started with the first C program’s teaching book, and went on to become popular through coders and designers learning in classes to write echo code, page titles, etc. with it featured. Today, when you install a fresh copy of the WordPress blogging script, it greets you with the first post subject.
It’s friendly, it makes sense, it’s so technical in a robotic sense, yet emotionally soft. It’s ironic that it so fits the ww web. Or … perhaps it’s annoying to see it so often … it can be anything.
A Technorati search for the two words yields 341,287 blog results (at least mostly in titles). Google Blogs, 454,720. Those are mostly just the newly-installed blogs’ first posts before edited or deleted, too. And out of all web pages in Google’s index for the strict phrase, there are 2.6 million even (allintitle: 407,000). And that excludes all the new sites and pages just popped up (except for the newest and most popular, until the baby fresh domains get pushed down into Sandbox scarcity).
And so welcome to this new blog about the web, design, and blogging. I hope you’ve enjoyed our first article, Hello World!
