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29-Jun-2004

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Filed under: General — codeman38 @ 3:49 pm

Wired.com tracks down the origins of that annoying hoax about AOL, Microsoft, and Intel merging. Quite interesting: it started as a computer science student’s spoof of ‘get rich quick’ schemes.

And for the curious, here’s the history of the hoax that’s referred to in the article.

(via Fark.com)

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