Back in 2005, I was looking for a catchy, and available, URL for a website. Instructional Systems Design is a mouthful and just too long to type into the address bar. Making up words as a means to differentiate your site name is kind of fun and sometimes the new word flows easily off the tongue. FaceBook seems like a fine example of a made up word that fits.
Thinking about the site, I began jotting down notes about it’s potential mission, my purpose, the possible vision statements. Somewhere along the way, the words instruction and vision landed close to each other on a page. I began thinking about visionary instruction and what that could encompass.
If you are a bit of a word nut, you’ll likely know that -ary is often added to the end of a word to indicate association, like dictionary & honorary. By adding -ary to instruction I found a new word: Instructionary. (Back then, Google returned no hits for the word.) I noticed that “instructionary” both described the intended site content and was available as a URL.
That’s a happy combination. So in 2006, I bought the com and net domains and “instructionary” was born.