The name comes from the idea of a shipping port, where all of this tons of stuff comes into the country, but organization is handled by the port without you ever having to think about it. Then the 87 comes from when I was born. xD (Though I did check to make sure IP port 87 wasn’t used for anything.) The logo being a ship’s wheel is also an allusion to the nautical theme of the name. And fun fact, the background image in the home page is the Port of San Diego taken from the Coronado bridge. I took it while on my way to vacation with my wife. :)
One day I want to make a little Easter egg when you SSH into port 87 on port87.com with your username and password. I’m thinking some kind of little mini game where if you beat it, you unlock some special feature or discount code.
I am the founder actually. :)
The name comes from the idea of a shipping port, where all of this tons of stuff comes into the country, but organization is handled by the port without you ever having to think about it. Then the 87 comes from when I was born. xD (Though I did check to make sure IP port 87 wasn’t used for anything.) The logo being a ship’s wheel is also an allusion to the nautical theme of the name. And fun fact, the background image in the home page is the Port of San Diego taken from the Coronado bridge. I took it while on my way to vacation with my wife. :)
One day I want to make a little Easter egg when you SSH into port 87 on port87.com with your username and password. I’m thinking some kind of little mini game where if you beat it, you unlock some special feature or discount code.
Ah OK. You mentioned quitting Microsoft to do it here, but the site says LinkedIn. So sounded like two different people.
Anyway, seems cool! Also the easter egg sounds like something I’d do :)
Yeah, LinkedIn is a subsidiary of Microsoft, so I use them kind of interchangeably when I talk about it.
TIL