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Did they buy this domain just for this blog posting about backslashes? No, the first HN submission is from 2017. Coincidence or an agenda?

• ehPReth 4y ago
  what?
  • stingraycharles 4y ago
    The story is about backslashes. The domain is backslasher.net. Seems like a fun coincidence to mention.
    • sofaygo 4y ago
      OP’s username is also Backslasher.
      • mbreese 4y ago
        That’s quite the origin story for a username!
• augusto-moura 4y ago
  Maybe the story is not that recent? I will bet on a coincidence though, pretty interesting nonetheless
• rsstack 4y ago
  Coincidence :) I know him in real life and he has used that nickname for a decade+.
• Backslasher 4y ago
  Ha, this is a nice coincidence. I was looking for a cool domain name a billion years ago and came up with Backslasher since I was just learning text processing in Bash/Perl. My lifelong goal is beating the same-named horror film in search results.