Topic: Twitter was renamed X due to 20+ year internet drama
Anonymous A started this discussion 2 years ago#114,161
Elon was involved with a 90s internet bank called X. Since he can't run a company for shit, he was fired as a CEO and pushed out of the company while on his honeymoon (lol).
So now, 20+ years later, he's re-acquired the x.com domain name and in an attempt to stick it to a bunch of people who, in all likelihood, couldn't give a shit, he simply renamed a company he bought at a highly inflated cost (which he is also destroying).
He really ought to join minichan. We have several users here just as hung up 90s internet drama.
boof joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 56 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,263,825
90s, while that explains the god damn x, because that's when all the products where x this and x that, and there's genx, Xtreme sports, Vince McMahon's XFL, and Xtreme armpit spray
Anonymous B replied with this 2 years ago, 1 hour later, 5 hours after the original post[^][v]#1,263,827
@1,263,817 (A)
1. He created X
2. It merged with Confinity which had a similar product called PayPal
3. The post-merge company became PayPal
4. He was ousted as CEO from the new Paypal, not X
5. He kept his equity in the company and made $250M when eBay bought PayPal in 2002
6. He was not holding any sort of grudge over PayPal when he purchased X.com from the company in 2017
7. By no metric is X (formerly known as Twitter) being "destroyed"