Yeah, so “fork” is a software term. It means that you take something that’s there, and instead of writing it off or destroying it, you keep all that is there, but then you steer it toward a different direction. In 2012, a bunch of my friends registered the domain name g0v.tw, which is an interesting play because all the official government websites are at G-O-V.tw. But by changing an “O” to a zero, you get into the “shadow government,” which works on the same kind of data but is always more interactive, faster, more fair, and more fun.

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