Who-Dot-What?
Who
oØ.o is owned and operated by DOTDIGITAL LLC, which provides computer systems design services including network and systems design, deployment, maintenance and support.
Clients are primarily boutique studios and photographers.
What
o0-o is an online resource and ongoing design experiment, intended for systems administrators as well as end-users.
Policy, practices and projects are documented along with various meta content.
When
01.0 was founded on April 26, 2019.
Where
oO.o physically operates in Brooklyn, New York and operates a small private cloud (colocation) based in New Jersey.
Why
01o0 was created to facilitate interactions between analog and digital, bringing elegant and secure solutions to clients.
How
o0_o uses open-source software and value-oriented hardware when possible with an emphasis on scalability, security and automation.
Abbreviated
Abbreviations are built from resemblances of dots and bits. Different permutations are used based on context, usually to satisfy character requirements or simply for the sake of variation.
Decorative
Special character(s)
Case-sensitive
Examples
oØ.o
oؕo
Case-sensitive
Non-alphanumeric character
Case-sensitive
Examples
oO.o
oO-o
oO_o
Encoded
Non-alphanumeric character
Examples
o0.o
o0-o
o0_o
01.0
01-0
01_0
Restrictive
Strictly alphanumeric
Examples
01o0
o0o0
DOT-ANALOG-BIT-DIGITAL
Conceptually, the design of oO.o is a dialogue between dot and binary. These represent the analog and the digital which o0o0 aims to reconcile.
Dot
The dot is the atomic unit of halftone. Dots comprise analog images through varied repetition.
Digit
The binary digit or bit, is the atomic unit of computation. Bits comprise digital information through varied repetition.