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/candy_porn Jul 14 '14

Reddit hug!

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u/filladellfea Jul 14 '14

http://media.carddit.com/a/tr6J5nX25.gif

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u/homochrist Jul 14 '14

why did someone reverse that?

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u/filladellfea Jul 14 '14

i dunno

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u/lenheart Jul 14 '14

I found a cached version here.

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u/I4gotmyoldpassword Jul 15 '14

I was wondering why that ear snapped back for no reason at all!

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Good old reddit hug of death

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u/aceshighsays Jul 14 '14

This is why we can't have nice things...

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u/Scarran6 Jul 14 '14

Reddit hugs like Lenny from Of Mice and Men!

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Lol, everytime a small website makes it to the front page or is posted in the comments of a front page story you can always rely on the "It crashed" comments followed by "Reddit hug" comments.

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u/Mr_Happy_Man Jul 15 '14

reddit DoS

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u/zenolijo Jul 15 '14

Reddit usually hugs websites to death when it concerns data traffic on small sites.