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Zillicon Walley – Harare, The Silicon Valley of the East

I, Jonathan N. Wakeling was watching Silicon Valley the other day and pondering on a New “decentralized” Internet or what’s come to be known as Web 3.0. Wordplay is often used in the wording of IT company names like Google and software names like Photoshop not to mention Internet slang like NSFW or BRB and programming languages like Java and C. I am Canadian by birth and have lived in Harare, Zimbabwe from the tender age of two, some forty years ago this August. Somehow as I was watching Silicon Valley I thought of Big Tech and Elon Musk’s recent and ongoing Twitter buyout and came up with “Googles in the Musk” a possible take-off of the 1988 film about Dian Fossey, Gorillas in he Mist.

I thought it would be nice to tweet from a @googlesinthemusk Twitter handle given current affairs as so started by trying create a Gmail address googlesinthemusk@gmail.com and Google said the username was not permitted. Brick wall. I sat around trying various combinations of words with Silicon Valley in the back of my mind and zilliconwalley@gmail.com was the result. And it was actually a more technically correct interpretation of the Googles and Gorillas train of thought and also worked as a reference to ZW the Zimbabwe Country Code. Whilst also highlighting an Eastern iteration of America’s Silicon Valley and being a nickname for Harare which has become a hub of modern development with a thriving online community. In addition, with Zimbabwe’s free-fall inflation and currency notes in the billions the zillion reference in Zillicon is also simply historical.

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