So why is it called DATA Lounge?

It’s a tribute to legendary power bottom Brent Spiner.

So the hets can't find it.

Sounded cool in '95.

Digital data is data that is represented using the binary number system of ones (1) and zeros (0), as opposed to analog representation.

I think it means data as in digital information, 1s and 0s. A virtual space, very 90s.

Yes. Back in the 90’s, anything you accessed online had to have trendy digital tech prefixes like cyber-, data-, edp-, compu-, web-, LAN-, WAN-, MS-, virtual-, etc.

Now these sound redundant and ridiculous.

Posters here forget the “the”. It’s THE Datalounge.

For some reason, I thought there was a pun involved about being “on the DL”.... am I imagining this?

But is it "The Data Lounge" or "The Datalounge"?

Look at the top of your screen to see what it is

r10 nice however if you look in the Copyright, it is:

the DataLounge®

Ypir and Datalpunge were the first Islamic supermodels back in the 70s.

Is it pronounced DAYTA Lounge or DATTA Lounge?

I loved Ypir in the George Michael's Freedom video

Dayta Lounge is one of the contestants competing on the next series of Rupauls Drag Race.

Homonym for "Dada Lounge."

When the scat trolls arrive, it becomes the Dudu Lounge.

When the French scat trolls arrive, it becomes Deauxdeauxlounge!

Because "Super Fabulous Gay Chat Forum" would make it too much of a target.

A target by whom? I'd say DL bitches can stand up to 4Chan freaks.

Because The Vivian Vance Lounge was taken.

Do we know who the inventor of the DL was? Whoever he is he's like the gay Thomas Edison.

Thomas Edison was a rampant patent troll who stifled innovation more than enabled it.

Did he and Mr. Watson fuck? Who was the top and who was the bottom?

The D and the L were important, as is Down Low.

[quote]Is it pronounced DAYTA Lounge or DATTA Lounge?

I call it the dah-tah-LOONGE!

Acronym for Don't Ask, Tell All.

[quote] Do we know who the inventor of the DL was?

Medio Opolis. He was Greek.

🎃 It's a Trick or Treat Conundrum.

I pronounce it "Dayta Lounge."

Only a cunt says "Datta".

Is there an evil twin site somewhere out on the dark web named Lorelounge?

How could it be more evil?

It was supposed to be Gay-Ta Lounge but that would have been blocked from too many servers

What r8 said, it worked as a pun for being "on the DL"

I've gotten no definitive answer here. I doubt it could be all these explanations.

[quote]Yes. Back in the 90’s, anything you accessed online had to have trendy digital tech prefixes like cyber-, data-, edp-, compu-, web-, LAN-, WAN-, MS-, virtual-, etc.

Back at the beginning, our resident drag queen had a weekly column called Trudy in Cyburbia.

Due to the girth of the elders it is now "Date a Lounge."

Because DataLounge sounds better than DigitalLounge and looks better visually?

And VirtualLounge, NetLounge, WebLounge, InfoLounge, and such don't sound good.

I also figured it was an ethnic pronunciation of Dat A Lounge.

Yes, R7. Accept no impostor!

r8, that is correct

Wow. Think of all the “tech” businesses places that have gone out of business since then.

Data City, Computer Associates, Computer City, Radio Shack, Gateway Computers....

[quote]R26 I call it the dah-tah-LOONGE! —It's sounds so fancy and French

I want it called The Dyatalounge Pass

R13 DAYTA in America. DAHTA elsewhere.

🕵️Who Dhat A Lounge?

I think R6 had the right answer (everything called cyber-this, compu-that), plus the DL (down-low) reference.

Now, everything's call "e-" something (for electronic). That, too, will sound redundant at some point.

NO!!!! Quit hypothesizing where the name came from!! I was there when it launched. The site was the brainchild of genius Daniel Ata. He (RIP) was a Japanese-American gay man living in San Francisco. He came to me with the idea when I was a website builder in Berkeley. When I pressed him for a name when it was time to launch, we took his first initial (D) and his last name (Ata) and merged the two. We were stunned at how perfect it was, and knew it was a sign the site would last. Here we are 25 years later!

Muriel was drunk off her gourd when she went to register the names of her data mining business site and her gossip/entertainment site.

She named this site Data Lounge and her data mining business site she named Gossip 4 Gaze. Needless to say, her data mining business with the name Gossip 4 Gaze did not impress any Chairman of the Board, so her business folded.

Datalounge is a native New Yorker r47, California is not allowed to claim it!

D’été L’onge, s’i vous plaît.

It was I! I who created Datalounge!