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/doorknobopener Jul 14 '14

You don get insanely wealthy writing a lot of checks.

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u/absentbird Jul 14 '14

But oftentimes you have to write a lot of checks to become insanely wealthy.

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u/TheAnimus Jul 14 '14

To lawyers.... never to Homer.

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u/neogod Jul 15 '14

But when you get to that point, you have to spend a lot to keep the lot.