4 ms·
Which is even funnier when you know he tried to rename PayPal to X before and got fired over this abysmal idea.
by marcod 3y ago
Which is even funnier when you know he tried to rename PayPal to X before and got fired over this abysmal idea.
- CharlesW 3y agoFor anyone who wants to know more: https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal
- xorcist 3y agoHe also tried to replace everything unix-like with MS Windows. Somehow that must have seemed really important when trying to make a startup survive the dot com boom-and-bust cycle.
- rsynnott 3y agoWhich is odd, really; you’d think that X11 would have appealed to his terrible names fetish. Oh. Though, actually this was probably the ActiveX era (DirectX is largely the only remaining evidence of it today, but MS went though an irritating “everything should end in X” phase in the late 90s).
- nihonthrowaway 3y agoXbox - prototype name for ActiveX game box.
- pezezin 3y agoXbox Series X. Like, how many X can you cram into a name?
- marcod 3y agoWindowsX ;)