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A great throwback to the nicer and simpler web of the 90s that so many of us grew up loving. Informative, no-nonsense content, fast loading even on a 28kbps modem, no BS tracking and analytics and ads and popups.

I just finished a project where I tried to fulfill those ideals, but it still comes in at around 200kb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com

There are two validation errors in the source! https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fx.com%2F&cha...

Interesting header:

> Vary:User-Agent

Maybe it's a clue to hidden content...

Vary: User-Agent header, caching servers should consider the user agent when deciding whether to serve the page from cache. [1]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Va...

super fast load times.

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Best thing I've ever seen on HN.

See also http://www.something.com/

That was quite a something...

Didn't this used to be owned by PayPal?

ooh

From Wikipedia: On July 5, 2017 Elon Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal.[5][6] On 14 July 2017, Musk announced the "launch of x.com" on Twitter.[7] When the page launch it consisted of a blank white page with one "x" in the top left corner.[8]

Someone on Twitter suggested he use x.com as his Alphabet type of holding company, and he agreed that might be the best idea for it.

Sounded [0] more like a suggestion to use it as a list of companies he's involved in, not a company by itself...

[0]: https://twitter.com/jondaily83/status/884689301002362880

It seems there's an open opportunity: single letter domain names see only very limited use.

I've just scanned through, and only x.com, q.com, and z.com resolved. q.com redirects to a centurylink setup page, and z.com is a japanese media group.

This piece is interesting. Reminds me of a little of endless.horse from a couple years back.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9558687

Money well spent.

This was the name of Elon Musk's banking startup which later merged with PayPal. Elon acquired the domain recently, though we don't know what he will use it for.

Why's Elon using godaddy

Damn good point. Seems like the ideals don't match up.

Chrome no likey the SSL cert

X marks the spot.

Rhishi?

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