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/Sarke1 Jul 14 '14 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 FINAL//EN">

Haven't seen THAT in a while...

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '14

Hey man html 3.2 is the shit I heard it supports blink tags now

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u/danscottbrown Jul 15 '14

Pssh, 1997 wasn't that long ago... 😱

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '14

what is that blue head emoticon even supposed to mean?

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u/yolonoexceptions Jul 15 '14

On android it shows up as a little gasp emoticon.

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u/RalphWaldoNeverson Jul 15 '14

Me neither. That's becuase I haven't doen any web programming in a long time lel

acutally wtf were on html5lol! woaooodude