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Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server by xattt on Friday April 21, 2023 @08:36AM (#35652783)
This might be searching for patterns where there are none, but is there any relation of ArsDigita to ArsTechnica?

Are the names some sort of cyberpunk in-joke?

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Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server by marcellus23 on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:36AM (#35654391)
"ars [some adjective]" is a not-uncommon construction for a name — you see other examples around like "ars mathematica".
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Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server by WorldMaker on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:22PM (#35658723)
"Ars" is Latin for "art". Can be read as things like: "Art digital", "Art technical", "Art mathematical"
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Re:AOLserver is America Online's Open-Source web server by marcellus23 on Friday April 21, 2023 @03:34PM (#35658874)
"art" is a valid translation in certain contexts, but a more accurate one would be "skill" or "craft". And noun-adjective is a typical word order in Latin, so you can just translate with the correct English word order ("technical art", not "art technical"*).
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