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Which is even funnier when you know he tried to rename PayPal to X before and got fired over this abysmal idea.

He also tried to replace everything unix-like with MS Windows. Somehow that must have seemed really important when trying to make a startup survive the dot com boom-and-bust cycle.

Which is odd, really; you’d think that X11 would have appealed to his terrible names fetish.

Oh. Though, actually this was probably the ActiveX era (DirectX is largely the only remaining evidence of it today, but MS went though an irritating “everything should end in X” phase in the late 90s).

Xbox - prototype name for ActiveX game box.

Xbox Series X.

Like, how many X can you cram into a name?

WindowsX ;)

For anyone who wants to know more: https://mashable.com/article/musk-x-twitter-paypal

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