This is one of my favourite web stories. A few years back, John Hodgman published a book titled
The Areas of My Expertise, a collection of random things, one of which was a list of the 700 all-time greatest hobo names. Soon after, people started posting illustrations of their interpretations of these names on
Flickr and tagging them with "700hoboes".
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At this point, all 700 have been illustrated at least once, with over a hundred people submitting a picture. The whole thing even has it's own site at
e-hobo.com. Here's an
interview with Adam Koford who initially set up the Flickr group.
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