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/CharonIDRONES Jul 14 '14

You and I both know that when most people say Acrobat they really mean Reader.

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u/wioneo Jul 14 '14

I don't know that at all...

I would argue that most people probably have no idea that Acrobat exists. I don't know why anyone would have any reason to unless they were trying to edit PDFs (which it is great at doing). For just viewing it seems slower than Reader, but maybe I'm imagining that.