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had to reread this title like 10 times. kept reading it as "Apple [that] I discarded...." and kept trying to find that angle in the article.

finally cracked the mystery, felt epicly stupid.

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Same, intentional clickbait title. A decent editor would not have allowed that through. "Discarded Apple I sells for $200k; mystery woman stands to get half". Not difficult.

Or perhaps a decent editor (of this Buzzfeed era) came up with it.

Decent at being obnoxious.

That's stretching the idea of clickbait quite a bit. "Mystery woman gets rid of old computer, you won't believe how much it sold for!" is the one baiting clicks. Current title is just an unfortunate arrangement of words.

> That's stretching the idea of clickbait quite a bit.

He was probably just using that term mistakenly, what a troll.

Wait, what? Who are you calling a troll?

Woosh!

It's a joke about misusing terminology.

So far over my head I didn't even feel the breeze from its passing.

I missed it too... so far over my head I frowned and muttered something about chemtrails.

I don't believe it's stretching. People specifically click through to that article to hear the first hand experience of the person who dumped an Apple I. There's an interesting angle to the story in this version; the actual article posted is void of any such angle of interest.

Let me know when you find a decent editor on the internet. Even quality publications like Ars let countless its/it's and sentences without verbs sneak through.

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