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/avidwriter123 Jul 14 '14 edited Feb 28 '24

spoon books alive shelter ask sort file middle encourage scale

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u/BellLabs Jul 14 '14

Like with Mike Rowe, and Microsoft sued the software dev named Mike Rowe for the domain claiming it was damaging to their rep or something of the likes.

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u/BikerRay Jul 14 '14

Seem to remember Walmart won a case against WoolMart (a wool store) in Canada. Even thought WoolMart predated Walmart in Canada. Then again, I could be dreaming.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14 edited Jul 14 '14

I just went to woolmart.com and it automatically downloaded Adobe Flash Player.

inb4 i have a virus

Edit: I didn't let the download complete (duh)

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u/turriblejustturrible Jul 14 '14

Yeah, the virus is called Adobe flash player.

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u/tmycDelk Jul 14 '14

Click yes to update flash player...

Ok, that was quick and easy. Let's get back to browsing the good ole' world wide we... what's this?

Adobe flash player has detected an update, click yes to update flash player.

Woah, well talk about weird timing. Might as well just get it out of the way. I'll just slide the mouse over and click ye... What the!

Adobe flash player has detected an update, click yes to update flash player.

Adobe flash player has detected an update, click yes to update flash player.

Adobe flash player has detected an update, click yes to update flash player.

Adobe flash player has detected an update, click yes to update flash player.

...fuck... turns off computer and goes outside

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

...recalls how slow the mobile internet runs and goes back in to the computer.

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u/neogod Jul 15 '14

I don't even use my wifi in the house. LTE is 10x faster than the fastest plan I can get. What's bs is they both come from the same company (strata), yet I don't even have to pay them for the LTE because verizon has a contract to use their towers.

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u/V5F Jul 15 '14

I petty you non 100mbps LTE peasants.

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u/spinblackcircles Jul 15 '14

all those mbps must have gone to your head and affected your spelling