This Site | Why Cybergate? | Why
9?
This
Site
Header Photo: Castle Keep and surrounds, Castle Rising (9 photo 'stitch'), January 2008.
Cybergate9.Net is my registered domain name. Having had a web site since around 1996, in one guise or another, Cybergate9.Net became web site 'home' in 2002. It's somewhere for me to publish information, test web technicalities, and generally showcase anything I feel like web-wise. I also 'own' the cybergate9.org and cybergate9.com domains.
Technically the domain and pages are hosted
at Lunarpages (in L.A.) where it runs on a content delivery framework I authored - phpSiteFramework. My blog runs on WordPress.
Main software tools for the site are PHP, Dreamweaver MX & Pixvue.
I also maintain a couple of other sites on a personal basis.
Conventions
Apart from the obvious... the following conventions are use throughout Cybergate9.Net:
Off site links are marked like this
On site links are marked like this or this
Broken links will generate this
Why
Cybergate?
Since the mid 1990's, and the beginning of the information superhighway
hype, the words derived from 'cyber' have been popularly associated
with the Internet.
My use of 'cybergate' is analogous; a traditional gate provides and/or
controls entry to someone's physical property, a cybergate provides
entry to someone's 'virtual property'.
'Cyberspace'
itself was coined by William
Gibson to describe an information space (connected to humans through
a brain-computer interface). This jargon was probably a variation
on the word 'cybernetics'.
Cybernetics was first used by Norbert
Wiener to describe the the study of control and communication
in animals and machines.
Cybernetics itself stems from the Greek kybernan ("to steer") and kybernetes or gubernetes ("steersman")
(article).
'Cyber' is now used commonly used as a prefix to number of jargon
words like cyberpunk, cybersex etc.
Phew! so that's a little about where Cybergate comes from.
So Cybergate9.Net is simply my claim (paid for until 2011!) to a piece of 'cyberspace
property'.
Why
9?
The number 9 is mathematically quite interesting:
- 2 x 9 = 18, then 1 + 8 = 9.
3 x 9 = 27 then 2 + 7 = 9.
4 x 9 = 36 then (surprise, surprise... ) 3 + 6 = 9
If you keep doing this you will always get the same result: the
sum of the multiple will always equal 9.
- Add all the numbers together: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 +
9 = 45, then 4 + 5 = 9.
Number 9 also has some interesting trivia:
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There are exactly 9 planets in our solar system.
Our planet is the 3rd from the sun which is the square of 9
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The average duration of a human pregnancy lasts
9 months
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Beethoven wrote nine symphonies
-
There are currently (2001) 109 elements in the
Periodic Table. The 9th is Fluorine, the 99th is Einsteinium
which
relates to Albert Einstein famous equation: e=mc2
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The Apollo 9 mission was the first manned flight
of the Apollo lunar hardware in Earth orbit and first manned flight
of the lunar module.
Number 9 also happens to be my birthday! :-)
Some other '9' links:
