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    11 hours ago

    The important part where this scheme came from:

    According to Tex Texin, the first numeronym of this kind was “S12n”, the electronic mail account name given to Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) employee Jan Scherpenhuizen by a system administrator because his surname was too long to be an account name. The use of such numeronyms became part of DEC corporate culture.[3]

    So it was a technical limitation gotten corporate naming scheme.