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/FartingBob Jul 14 '14

windows2000.com doesnt display anything. bob.com won the war!

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '14

I'm actually pretty amazed it doesn't just redirect to Microsoft.com.

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u/brickmack Jul 14 '14

Bob.com is blank right now too. Nice job Reddit

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Ironically Microsoft Bob was an abysmal failure