unspace.ca is five today
posted by pete on March 8th, 2010
I realized this afternoon that I registered the unspace.ca domain five years ago today.
Ryan McMinn, Anthony Watts and I had gone through some hellish “branding” workshops trying to come up with a name for our new, quasi-legal partnership. We were just a project manager, developer, and designer sharing about 220 feet in an old sweatshop building on Spadina for about six months before we decided that we should band together and go after bigger fish.
Don’t be alarmed, but Unspace was almost called Orchestra.
Unspace was actually Anthony’s password (at the time, obviously) and when he proposed it, it was so much better than all of the other alternatives that we just acted on it immediately. The first Rails Pub Nite — the only one held at C’est What? before moving to The Rhino — followed shortly thereafter, which led to us meeting this crazy punk kid from Florida named Hampton.
It’s been quite the adventure. Ryan and Anthony have since moved on to other things, but we’re all still good friends. That is what’s most important to us.