Ether, that is how they called the hypothetical medium in which light travelled - until about 150 years ago. It was somehow magic because nobody had proof that it existed. It just lived in some mind experiments. Latest in the year 1887, this haunting came to an end with the famous Michelson-Morley experiment that they still teach at school.

But the term, which could be traced back to the Greek God Aither or Aithir, stayed alive. It became a synonym for TV transmissions and was used as the name of one of our most important network specifications, the Ethernet.

So fifteen years ago, when I searched for a suitable alias for all these accounts in the social networks, Aithir popped up at that time. This name seemed perfect for me. Many interpretations and connotations, so cool. One year later, it wore down already and that user name felt as nerdy as collecting D20 dices (👀).

But my alias was there to stay.