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Not to be a stickler about name collisions, but Facebook wrote a research paper about a graph database called Unicorn back in 2013:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/matei/courses/2015/6.S897/readi...

This appears to be unrelated, which is somewhat unfortunate.

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I wish there was some sort of social agreement to name projects new words, or combined words.

We're overloading the english language so much. In 100 years it's going to be impossible to search for anything, as every word and phrase will have a million products and projects attached.

Didn't the original MIT hackers take pride in coming up with clever and unique names? what happened to that? I'd even settle for names like "elinks"

Search engines will just need to take context into account, I remember a lot of confusion between searches for Cisco IOS versus Apple IOS back when IOS first took on the name, but with a few keywords to provide context, now it's pretty easy to get relevant results.

There is also the ruby server https://unicorn.bogomips.org/

There is also the qemu-as-a-library, Unicorn. https://github.com/unicorn-engine/unicorn

Funny how there's so many of them considering that the name Unicorn is generally supposed to have an air of rarity about it.

Okay, everyone is hiding a unicorn in their closet :)

This was my very first reaction as well. The Unicorn paper was published in a high-profile conference, so as a N=1 sample I'd say it's famous in the systems community.

My vote is for UnicornPoop. Anyone have that?

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