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The most interesting thing about this is the name; but then again, URI manipulation is not particularly interesting. How did the amusing choice of name come about?

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Maybe not the source of the name, but the first thing that came to mind was the exploding whale of Florence, Oregon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_t44siFyb4

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale

Reminds me of PHP's `explode` for splitting a string by a delimiter.

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