Home

In UNIX, the tilde character (~) is a shortcut for the users home folder. Apparently this relates to the position of the character on a key named home on an early UNIX terminal.

Why was '~' chosen to represent the home directory?

Where is our digital home?

In the context of the Special Issue 29, Barbs, Tommi, and Youjung used this open question as the key metaphoric element for their workshop Our Digital Home.