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Inside the curious mind of XKCD cartoonist Randall Munroe

Channels with Peter Kafka

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What Is XKCD?

XKCD doesn't mean anything. It's just a cool sounding word. But what sounds cool to like an 11-year-old doesn't sound cool to a 14 year old. And so sometime in my mid teens, I was like, what I need to do is just pick a spot in the space of like all four character or three character strings that no one else is using and then claim those letters.

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