Phrasebase - 9:06 pm on Aug 11, 2007 (gmt 0)

Ok, I'll date myself here. Austtr is correct. The underscore (_) became defacto standard for naming files in DOS and early Windows.

Hyphens (-) were allowed but it was uncool to name files with them because (in my opinion) they didn't seperate/distinguish each of the words prominently enough, so the underscore meme won.

I recall adopting the underscore approach in the early 90's when I moved from the Midwest to Silicon Valley (maybe they don't call it that anymore). I felt like I had learned the *real* naming convention used by the real professionals, and how it beat the mishmash of dashes and scrunchy words.

I think Windows first started allowing files to be named with a space around 95, plus or minus. But even today, I use an underscore for most of my file names. (strong meme).

Does google recognize the underscore? no.

Should Google recognize underscores? Should God save the polar bear?

[edited by: tedster at 9:15 pm (utc) on Aug. 11, 2007]