I remember in ~1996 as Yahoo was getting huge and the new words “dot com” were on everyone’s lips, they ran a prize giveaway for the first person that could come forward with official government documentation saying their birth name could credibly be interpreted as “dot com”.
The winner was this elderly lady “Dottie Com” who apparently was called “Dot” her whole life, and had never been on the Internet.
I just burned some Perplexity tokens and it can’t find the story but I swear it is true
Fire the competititionkeeper missiles!
Fuxking love grandmas energy in the 2nd panel. Really captures the feeling of 90s internet
I remember in ~1996 as Yahoo was getting huge and the new words “dot com” were on everyone’s lips, they ran a prize giveaway for the first person that could come forward with official government documentation saying their birth name could credibly be interpreted as “dot com”.
The winner was this elderly lady “Dottie Com” who apparently was called “Dot” her whole life, and had never been on the Internet.
I just burned some Perplexity tokens and it can’t find the story but I swear it is true