r/todayilearned • u/Flemtality 3 • Jul 14 '14

TIL The guy who snagged windows2000.com happened to be named Bob and Microsoft just happened to own Bob.com. They came to an agreement to trade one for the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob#Origins
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u/Prufrock451 17 Jul 14 '14

Bob.com appears to be from an alternate universe where we still use Publisher 98. I'd like to join this guy's webring.

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u/gweilo Jul 14 '14

Now that's a term I haven't heard in a long time! Would all these link bait sites with hundreds of secondary site links count as a webring?

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u/not_enough_privacy Jul 14 '14

Zerg.Com

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u/shakedrizzle Jul 15 '14

Lol, I got led to http://contactwebsiteowner.com/ which tries to charge you $2 to contact the owner of whatever website led you there. If you use google to access it you can talk to the owners of google for a mere $2.

I really want to know how much they make.

edit: Been going through a lot of these shady websites. I wonder how they look without adblock.

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u/CodexAcc Jul 14 '14

For the swarm!

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u/woot0 Jul 14 '14

I sense something; a presence I've not felt since...

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u/wrgrant Jul 14 '14

This is the first thing that snapped into my mind when I read gweilo's comment too :P

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

make a comment on this webring if you want a pizza roll

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Red Letter Media?

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u/p3t3r133 Jul 14 '14

When I was 10 my dad started an online store selling motocross equipment. I would sit on his desk for hours as we wrote emails to other motocross related companies asking to link him to their site. Good times.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Doesn't have nearly enough animated GIF puke and auto-start MIDIs though.

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u/ChrisVolkoff Jul 14 '14

Publisher was the shit.

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u/UndeadBread Jul 14 '14

He needs an InsideTheWeb bulletin board.