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So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo! (aus.social)
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So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!

He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website...

Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Messenger

Where you can stream audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com

Where you can stream videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Screen

Where you can create social media posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_360%C2%B0

Where you can manage your finances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Finance

Where you can share photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Photos

Where you can earn money publishing content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Publisher_Network

Where you can find a job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_HotJobs

Where you can buy and sell stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Auctions

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this truly is a vision for the future — if by "the future" you mean 1997.

#tech #technology #twitter #X #musk #ElonMusk @technology #yahoo

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[-] zucky@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

If by "the future" you mean 1997

That's funny because part of the reason Musk wanted to turn Twitter to X was because he's been squatting on the domain since the late 90s

[-] rat@ag.batlord.org 15 points 1 year ago

Nah, he bought it from Paypal in 2017.

[-] zucky@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

He founded X.com which became PayPal. No one buys a domain back 2 decades later for no reason, unless you're a manchild who's been having wet dreams about it and can't let that stupid name go

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

x.com merged with Paypal. He tried to hamstring Paypal, was removed, then x.com died as people preferred the Paypal brand.

[-] trachemys@iusearchlinux.fyi 8 points 1 year ago

I wonder if he knows about the game Xcom

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