{"id":6843,"date":"2013-01-22T21:10:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6843"},"modified":"2013-01-22T21:10:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T02:10:42","slug":"why-tilde-home-directory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/22\/why-tilde-home-directory\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was &ldquo;~&rdquo; Chosen to Represent the Home Directory?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/34196\/design-question-why-was-chosen-to-represent-the-home-directory\/34198#34198\">pbm<\/a> quotes <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tilde#Directories_and_URLs\">Wikipedia<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=5090344\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/unix.stackexchange.com\/questions\/34196\/design-question-why-was-chosen-to-represent-the-home-directory\"><p>This practice derives from the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal in common use during the 1970s, which happened to have the tilde symbol and the word &ldquo;Home&rdquo; (for moving the cursor to the upper left) on the same key.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>pbm quotes Wikipedia (via Hacker News): This practice derives from the Lear-Siegler ADM-3A terminal in common use during the 1970s, which happened to have the tilde symbol and the word &ldquo;Home&rdquo; (for moving the cursor to the upper left) on the same key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[295,163],"class_list":["post-6843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-history","tag-unix"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6844,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6843\/revisions\/6844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}