Having been occupied running fansites since 1999/2000 we decided to start our very own corner of the web in January 2005. Back then it was Twintuition to follow the Corrs and Avril Lavigne in taking loads of our spare time. Along with the blog we also tried to maintain a column (the Tapestry Notes) but it turned out to be quite tricky to come up with original topics every week.
In July of the same year we decided to get our own domain after our friend who hosted our diary and stuffs planned to get rid of hers. Although the name twintuition had not been registered anywhere so far we changed the name to 5th Floor, basically because we wanted something "more unique" and not an obvious double act.
There's no real greater idea behind the name. Actually we don't (and did never) even live on the 5th floor. Our own four walls are on the second and last floor of an apartment house by the way.
We first toyed the idea of picking a songtitle such as Positively Somewhere which we almost immediately knocked on the head for being too "unwieldy". Then we actually wanted to go for a 2nd Floor but this name obviously enjoys great popularity. So we kind of went up the storeys and 5th Floor sounded quite nice to us, too.
Please link back to http://5th-floor.net. Do not hotlink but save the buttons to your own server.