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I was talking to Jarrod the other night about the early days of Stack Overflow. I then realized SO came out of private Beta three years ago.

What better way to celebrate this milestone than making a T-shirt for it?

I wanted to come up with a design that's interesting and regular SO users can relate to. The design isn't to promote the Stack Overflow as a web site, because I feel SO has a lot of branding power today than when we made the first round of shirts. This design is about the sub-culture that's formed by SO users.

It's about you.

Without further ado...

SO T-shirt

SO T-shirt zoom

Yes, it's a meme shirt.

Before I go off printing the shirts, I'd like to get some community feedback about the design. If you like it, upvote! If you don't, upvote!

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  • 6
    Love it, hopefully Santa will bring me one :)
    – Kev
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:21
  • 4
    love it, I wonder if all that delicate detail will survive the washing machine
    – waffles
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:22
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    Spectacular. You will be giving bobince a couple for free, right??
    – squillman
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:22
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    @squillman I would expect that a unicorn Piñata full of these be shipped to bobince
    – waffles
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:23
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    Shouldn't this have a link to the relevant answer? Like http://stackoverflow.com/q/1732454? (Just by our CC license.) Oct 5, 2011 at 1:29
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    JFC this is amaaaaaazing! I love this answer, I love this shirt. I'd declare my love for you, too, but that might be a bit much. ;)
    – Aarthi
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:33
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    Hmmm, my only question is 'Where can I buy one?'
    – jjnguy
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:47
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    Genius. I want mine signed by the artist himself. @Jin? Oct 5, 2011 at 2:09
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    I want to be able to buy these on the store if I can't get it free, since I'm not a top user on SO as far as rep goes.
    – Moshe
    Oct 5, 2011 at 2:21
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    That silhouette looks nothing like Tony.
    – Shog9
    Oct 5, 2011 at 2:53
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    I like the idea, but I can make myself a social outcast just fine without the help of a t-shirt, thank you very much.
    – Pops
    Oct 5, 2011 at 3:11
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    That doesn't look like a narwhal.
    – user1228
    Oct 5, 2011 at 14:40
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    Shut up and take my money. Oct 7, 2011 at 11:54
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    "unholy child weeps the blood of virgins", "summons tainted souls", "ritual infanticide". I don't think I would want to wear it if the final design contained this sort of text. Consider that those peering at it will not understand the context of it. I don't think the "sub-culture" of SO relates to any of those things. Oct 18, 2011 at 12:20
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    PLEASE LET ME BUY ONE OF THESE.
    – user154510
    Jan 6, 2012 at 18:59

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Can we get some of these for some other sites, such as Super User? Super User just passed its 2nd anniversary, for example...

Kudos to the clever design of the unicorn! Even though I'm not on SO much, I'd be proud to wear such a shirt with a "hidden meme", because it represents much of the Stack Exchange.

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    we're creating a swag package for SU! stay tuned.
    – Jin
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:48
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    I was about to leave a comment saying that SU ran a big anniversary contest, and then I saw who wrote this answer....
    – Pops
    Oct 5, 2011 at 3:09
  • @PopularDemand :P You won parts of that contest ;)
    – studiohack
    Oct 5, 2011 at 3:39
  • ...and Ask Ubuntu celebrates its first anniversary tomorrow. Oct 9, 2011 at 22:20
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The only thing is... I always thought the post had a typo and should actually say "the angels are not real" instead of "the angles are not real".

Is that true? Can we hunt down bobince and have him explain which he means? :)

Other than that... love the idea and the design.

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  • that's correct in Spanish si?
    – Jin
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:17
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    No idea, honestly. I always assumed it was just English.
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:18
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    I approve of both angels and unicorn! the more angels the happier I am
    – waffles
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:20
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    I approve of both angles and angels. If you can't trust math, who can you trust. #TrustNoOne
    – jcolebrand
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:22
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    "Angles" could refer to HTML's angle brackets (< and >). Oct 5, 2011 at 1:33
  • @PaŭloEbermann Oh hey, I never thought of that. It kinda makes sense. :)
    – Adam Lear StaffMod
    Oct 5, 2011 at 1:34
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    @PaŭloEbermann yeah, that's what I always thought, too. Oct 5, 2011 at 1:34
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    I thought it was referring to interdimensional perspectives.
    – user154510
    Jan 23, 2012 at 18:35
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I just got mine! Thanks everybody at StackExchange!

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  • Got mine yesterday. Awesome! Dec 16, 2011 at 11:19
  • @SeanPatrickFloyd and Daniel did you guys buy this shirt? Where can I buy one!?
    – gideon
    Feb 24, 2012 at 12:45
  • @gideon nope. only for power users :-) Work on your rep and you'll get the next one... Feb 24, 2012 at 13:53
  • ah! :( How much rep are we talking? I have 5k on SO working toward 10k
    – gideon
    Feb 24, 2012 at 14:57
  • @gideon I don't know. At the time I was at about rank 150. Feb 24, 2012 at 20:00

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