Author: Chris Anderson

Imagine you’re sitting at your desk, working on a new project. All of a sudden, you run across some sort of word that looks like it was pulled out of the alphabet soup: “Xucvihkds.” Curiosity gets the better of you, and you try looking it up immediately; you are taken into a labyrinth of misinformation and confusion. Is this some kind of code, a computer term, or an inside joke that some closed club uses? This attempt at deciphering “Xucvihkds” leads one through a series of elaborate searches and dead ends. Few have pursued this alone. The term “Xucvihkds” has…