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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by edgyquant on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:31AM (#38570201)
Or it could be that they are obviously a front for the alphabet agencies
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by swozey on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:14AM (#38570662)
lmao. I would love to have been a fly on the wall "We need a new company name!" "Alphabet!" "YES EXACTLY!"
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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by thih9 on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:21AM (#38570751)
> 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

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Re:X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com? by swozey on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:19PM (#38571483)
What! Well that deflates my entire theory
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