What should the name be
The RFC 1437 is - as anyone who has read the introductory text will probably already suspect - one of the April RFCs. But somehow, this April RFC appealed to me more than any other - even if it is technically rather weak (the RFC with the carrier pigeons - RFC 1149 - is much better).
The idea of transporting intelligent life forms is not new - almost every science fiction has a variation of it. However, there is already the transport of intelligent life forms today - at least if you use a suitable definition. Of course, there is no physical transport by beaming. But what makes intelligent life forms?
For me, the central component of intelligent life forms is communication. And not just purpose-bound communication - there is also such a thing among pack animals during hunting, for example. But rather, communication for its own sake, communication for the sake of communication. Representation of ideas and thoughts, just to convey them to others, without there being a specific reason to do so.
I have been indulging in this communication for many years in various forms. For some time now, again intensified on the Internet in the form of photo albums (e.g. leicaesk and hugoesk (shut down)) or weblogs (e.g. Hugos House of Weblog Horror). Furthermore, software has always been a central means of communication for me (e.g. PyDS - a weblog and news aggregator software, or the software of this server).
This site is intended to be a supplement. Here, various media should be brought together and used jointly. No idea where this will take me, no idea if anything more than just a few test pages and general blabla will ever be created, but if you never set off, you will never be able to go on a journey.
Of course, the whole thing did not come to me immediately as a great revelation. For example, I used the domain rfc1437.de for a long time simply as a funny mail domain - mail as the idea of virtual beaming. But mail alone is a very narrow medium. Many ways of expressing myself can only be poorly transported by mail.
Moreover, it annoyed me that people kept pointing out to me that my domain was broken, just because no web server was set up ...