It was more an attempt at light humor than sarcasm. :-)
(Not to mention I thought it was hard to imagine anybody around here being unaware of the most capitalized company in the world. Aside from maybe Saudi Aramco.)
Heh... I knew my Slashdot ID was pretty low (~32K), but had no idea I'd been around here that long. Now I feel old. :-)
Speaking of old, I used Reddit as my main news source for a while, and I remember /r/programming having a post celebrating 65,536 users. Now it's over 10 times that, and there are more than three subreddits.
(Not to mention I thought it was hard to imagine anybody around here being unaware of the most capitalized company in the world. Aside from maybe Saudi Aramco.)