That man who ‘deleted his entire company’ with a line of code? It was a hoax
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The owner of a Web hosting company who claimed to have erased his entire business from the Internet with a single script command appears to have made the whole thing up.
Bonus marks for those who declared shenanigans
But I am at a loss as to how this could be used for marketing: "Oh look, I advertised that I'm an idiot (and people took me seriously). Buy my services." I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
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The owner of a Web hosting company who claimed to have erased his entire business from the Internet with a single script command appears to have made the whole thing up.
Bonus marks for those who declared shenanigans
But I am at a loss as to how this could be used for marketing: "Oh look, I advertised that I'm an idiot (and people took me seriously). Buy my services." I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
Or was it? :~ Web host 123-reg deletes sites in clean-up error - BBC News[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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The owner of a Web hosting company who claimed to have erased his entire business from the Internet with a single script command appears to have made the whole thing up.
Bonus marks for those who declared shenanigans
But I am at a loss as to how this could be used for marketing: "Oh look, I advertised that I'm an idiot (and people took me seriously). Buy my services." I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
Kent Sharkey wrote:
I suppose it's the old "There is no such thing as bad publicity"
Brand recognition as goal? The meaning of the word 'spam' has shifted, but back in the 90's, any advertisement through forums, usenet newsgroups etc. would be considered spam. What this guy (and any viral marketer) did could be called creative spam. Creative, but it still makes him a spammer, the lowest of the lowlife to be found under internet rocks. But if spamming didn't pay off, we'd see a lot less of it. I clearly remember Amazon being nicknamed Spamazon, just because they took the fact that you ordered something from them as your permission to start e-mailing you their ads. Back then it made me and a lot of people mad, but when some etailer does it today, all I do is sigh, start searching for the unsubscribe link, and hope it works.
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Or was it? :~ Web host 123-reg deletes sites in clean-up error - BBC News[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
They are going to be in some major legal trouble there. What idiots.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question? The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism. Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
