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7ewis
on Dec 8, 2023
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X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
What meaning do they infer?
swozey
on Dec 8, 2023
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That they're going to make a ton of stupid company names and it's their company-name umbrella dad-joke used for tax and legal purposes?
We didn't just all get the memo that that's the joke?
edgyquant
on Dec 8, 2023
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Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
swozey
on Dec 8, 2023
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lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
thih9
on Dec 8, 2023
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> In a 2018 talk, Schmidt disclosed that the original inspiration for the name came from the location of the then Google Hamburg office's street address: ABC-Straße.
From Wikipedia about alphabet Inc
swozey
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What! Well that deflates my entire theory
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