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Geek Culture / What is Apollo?

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I know the feeling
or do I

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I know that... duh

I was trying to catch you out....
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actually this smiley killed you 3 seconds ago you zombie

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Apollo is the callsign for commander lee adama (not the admiral) in Battlestar Galactica

Wii rules.
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most used definition I found is
apollo-(Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophesy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis

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Posted: 17th Jun 2006 01:27 Edited at: 2nd Jul 2006 04:20
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Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Mourns_for_Adonais%3F_%28TOS_episode%29

Or, could it possibly be a large man wearing a golden towel?

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Seppuku Arts
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Posted: 17th Jun 2006 01:31
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Quote: "apollo-(Greek mythology) Greek god of light; god of prophesy and poetry and music and healing; son of Zeus and Leto; twin brother of Artemis"


Then the Romans stole him and worship him, stole the other mythical bed time story gods, renamed them and worshipped them too, damn Romans!

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Well seeing has how he's never going to meet you, he can probably say "your mom" all he wants.

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Quote: "Or, could it possibly be a large man wearing a golden towel?"


I remember that episode... it was really bad... really bad.

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Posted: 17th Jun 2006 18:47 Edited at: 17th Jun 2006 18:48
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Another possible reason for the forums being called apollo

That man could be rich? Anyway does anyone have any other possible reasons for the forums being called apollo.

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@Musashi

I cannot stand it either, that is why I did it.
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Richard Davey
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Quote: "Anyway does anyone have any other possible reasons for the forums being called apollo."


How about the real reason?

Before I joined TGC (or Darkbasic Software as they were called back then), I ran a company called t-minus 10. One of our clients was Aardman Animations - the film studio that do Wallace and Gromit, Chicken Run, etc. We built a forum system for their web site, along with loads of other parts (news feeds, film comments, etc). Internally, the project was known as Apollo, and went through several iterations on their site. Originally it was coded in C# (ASP.NET platform) (yes, I used to be a Microsoft Certified Engineer / Developer, even though I still did all of the core company PHP work as well).

I eventually built the TGC forum in PHP4, but as I'd always liked the name of the Aardman system, I kept it.

It'd be nice if it really did come from a pinball machine. But alas no.

Bite my shiny metal ass
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