According to the guy who created JavaScript, Brendan Eich[0]:

> On Nov 16, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Peter Michaux wrote:

> > The name "JSON.stringify" seems a little too "Web 2.0" cool to me.

> Hardly. It's hacker dictionary material, old sk00l.

> > Is there any reason a more usual and serious sounding option like "serialize" was not used?

> Ugh, Web 1.0 my-first-Java-serializable-implementation anti-nostalgia vapors.

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