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by laydn 1072 days ago
My goodness. The effort that has been put into this site!!

I can't tell whether the entire site is satire though. For example: http://www.techzonics.com/ebay-ebola-sordid-history.htm

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Wow, apparently he's not wrong about the original eBay site being about ebola? He's wrong about the weird conspiratorial/xenophobic stuff of course, but it seems like the original eBay site probably had similar energy to this one:

"The eccentric engineer was obsessed with t he public-health system's inability to cope with large-scale health crises, particularly ebola It was around the time of the movie "Outbreak," so the idea of a pandemic was in a lot of people's minds.

After purchasing the domain ebay.com he filled the site with pages of ebola-related content.

So "e" stood for 'ebola,' and 'Bay' for 'Bay Area.'"

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ebay-got-name-originally-ebol...