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The Pipe
The favicon is | — the Unix pipe, invented by Doug McIlroy at Bell Labs in 1973.
In Unix, the pipe connects programs: the output of one becomes the input of another. ls | grep txt — list files, filter for text. Small tools, composed together.
This embodies the Unix philosophy: write programs that do one thing well, and design them to work together.
The pipe is the interface where data meets process. It's the literal connection point — which is what mqqn builds: software where physical devices meet data systems.
The phosphor green (#33ff33) references the P1 phosphor of early monochrome CRTs — the color of terminal screens before color displays became standard.
* The name mqqn was inspired by the recursive acronyms of GNU ("GNU's Not Unix") and HURD ("HIRD of Unix-Replacing Daemons," where HIRD is "HURD of Interfaces Representing Depth"). In this tradition: mQQn — Quality, Quantity Not! Or transpose the QQs; it matters not.