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Let's not forget to add Xvid to this circus, having X in your name was all the rage back in the early 2000s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid https://en.m.

Let's not forget to add Xvid to this circus, having X in your name was all the rage back in the early 2000s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid

doubled112 3y ago
That's just DivX backward.
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zerocrates 3y ago
The MPEG-4 Visual space was kind of a mess.
joenot443 3y ago
What a throwback! Only now am I realizing that Xvid is the OSS counterpart to Divx. This is one part of 2000s tech I'm happy to have mostly forgotten about.
wlesieutre 3y ago
Compared to 2024, when of course nobody would throw away an enormous amount of existing brand awareness to have an X for their product name
ta1243 3y ago
I prefer extortion, the X makes it sound cool https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6vgzAswgE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG6vgzAswgE
devonkim 3y ago
Xtreme marketing was absolutely going on back then - remember the Mountain Dew ad campaigns? Yeah....