Name
Most years, TG has a name or "tagline"; the tagline doesn't really mean much, but it still influences the logo (or the other way round) and some other material. A list of names includes:
Year | Tagline | Inspiration |
---|---|---|
2000 | "The Gathering 1900 - Follow the Flow" | The Millennium bug |
2001 | "A Cyberspace Odyssey" | The movie 2001: A Space Odyssey |
2003 | "The Gathering: Reloaded" | The movie The Matrix Reloaded, and a reference to the endless reloading to get a ticket on PTN |
2004 | "Rescue of Fractalus" | The Lucasfilm Games's game Rescue on Fractalus! |
2005 | "We Are The Robots" | The Kraftwerk song "The Robots" from the album The Man-Machine |
2006 | "The Dark Side of Pluto" | NASA's first probe to Pluto |
2007 | "Still Puzzled?" | The famous "fifteen puzzle" |
2008 | "Optimus Prime" | The Transformers character Optimus Prime, the fact that this is the 17th Gathering (a prime number) and Prime numbers' relations to computers. |
2009 | "Fire and Ice" | As if making its way through "fire and ice" due to the tax issues, the event still managed to pull off. |
2010 | "Submerged" | After having seen "Vikingskipet" dressed in fire and ice last year, we dive under water for TG10 and present The Gathering 2010 - Submerged. |
2011 | "Partly Cloudy with a Chance of Lightning" | The theme points to both that we have now risen from the depths (TG10 - Submerged), and that "cloud computing" is becoming increasingly important in the world of computers. |
2012 | “At the end of the universe” | Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (With e.g. a sperm whale hanging from the ceiling, and a restaurant called Milliways.) |
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Famous quotes containing the word name:
“Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore than name. Are they all alike. I think so.”
—Gertrude Stein (18741946)
“What is it? a learned man
Could give it a clumsy name.
Let him name it who can,
The beauty would be the same.”
—Alfred Tennyson (18091892)