So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!

AJ Sadauskas@aus.social to Technology@beehaw.org – 440 points –

So Elon's a "visionary" who wants to turn X into a single website where you can do everything — kinda like Yahoo!

He wants his new MySpaceX portal to be a website...

Where you can message people: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Messenger

Where you can stream audio: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadcast.com

Where you can stream videos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Screen

Where you can create social media posts: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_360%C2%B0

Where you can manage your finances: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Finance

Where you can share photos: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Photos

Where you can earn money publishing content: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Publisher\_Network

Where you can find a job: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_HotJobs

Where you can buy and sell stuff: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!\_Auctions

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, this truly is a vision for the future — if by "the future" you mean 1997.

#tech #technology #twitter #X #musk #ElonMusk @technology #yahoo

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If by "the future" you mean 1997

That's funny because part of the reason Musk wanted to turn Twitter to X was because he's been squatting on the domain since the late 90s

Nah, he bought it from Paypal in 2017.

He founded X.com which became PayPal. No one buys a domain back 2 decades later for no reason, unless you're a manchild who's been having wet dreams about it and can't let that stupid name go

x.com merged with Paypal. He tried to hamstring Paypal, was removed, then x.com died as people preferred the Paypal brand.