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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.

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Elon Musk and company take @x handle from its original user. He got zero dollars for it.

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Here's how it went down.

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I swear to god fucking Elon Musk googled “cool website name generator” before changing it
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  And got this:
  
  https://i.imgur.com/JiTUI3M.png
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  I think it’s more likely he googled “Call of Duty Username prefix generator” then shaved the duplicates XD

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