The Gathering (computer Party) - Name

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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    “What is it? a learned man
    Could give it a clumsy name.
    Let him name it who can,
    The beauty would be the same.”
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