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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by comprev on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:47PM (#36296525)
It could be but the version I remembered was trying to tell someone the website over the phone.

Perhaps someone on HN has a more reliable source than my brain?

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by RoyGBivCap on Monday June 12, 2023 @02:12PM (#36298280)
How do you create the name for a website by trying to tell someone how to get to it over the phone? Doesn't the DNS entry have to exist first?
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by comprev on Monday June 12, 2023 @03:52PM (#36299937)
"Hey check out this website I discovered - it's called Slashdot" "It's called what!?" "Slashdot" "How do you spell that?" "http://slashdot.org" "Hang on, what? How many slashes and dots?"
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by RoyGBivCap on Monday June 12, 2023 @05:08PM (#36301158)
So the conversation of what might happen occurred before the site was created?
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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by comprev on Monday June 12, 2023 @06:19PM (#36302081)
See the FAQ for an official answer - https://slashdot.org/faq

I probably got the telephone part mixed up but was right about being confusing to read aloud.

Can’t get a better source that /. itself!

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Re:Reddit.com appears to be having an outage by RoyGBivCap on Monday June 12, 2023 @07:40PM (#36303010)
I have a 6 digit /. id and somehow never knew this. Thanks!
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