TIL that I18n is Internationalization, and why

And a terrible way to abbreviate things, IMHO.

And "a11y" is the most obscure -- dare I say... inaccessible -- fucking abbreviation of "accessibility". For years I only saw them in passing and assumed both these things were like, quirkily-named Javascript frameworks or niche standards documents or something, despite knowing quite well the concepts they actually refer to.

Kubernetes has one too, K8s

Am I having a stroke? This and all the comments seem to make zero sense.

The important part where this scheme came from:

According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was "S12n", the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. The use of such numeronyms became part of DEC corporate culture.[3]

So it was a technical limitation gotten corporate naming scheme.

This makes me wonder if there's a h33a abbreviation...

::: spoiler h33a Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is a humorously artificially extended word for "fear of/aversion to long words" :::

I have to highlight the best part about this, because it's hilarious: apparently, the first numeronym was "S12n", the email username of Jan Scherpenhuizen, because his actual name exceeded the character limit (this was back in the 80s).

Marc Andreessen does that with his name too: https://a16z.com/

One of my friends got a penicillin IV at the hospital, and the machine shortened it to "PENI5".

Well f2k me, T1L, t4s!

So, how would you abbreviate titin?