Late last night I was having trouble sleeping. Constantly rolling over, throat slightly burning, runny nose, chilly feet…the list of evil sleep preventers goes on and on. I ended up turning the brightness back up on my macbook pro’s screen as I proceeded to pull it onto my bed and indulge in my boredom.

What happened next made me chuckle.

I designed a simple mock-up of Microsoft + Yahoo (and when I say mock-up I mean less “up” and a lot more…”mock”).

As I sat in bed laughing to/at myself a grin slowly formed on my face as I slipped “Here Comes Another Bubble” into the background of “Microhoo”. I sent it to Mind 1 as I sleepily searched for a domain. Microhoo.com was taken…Yahosoft.com was too…in the end it was a toss up between 44billionlater.com and MicrosoftAndYahooSittingInATree.com. Although the second one is definitely full of pure awesomeness… I decided to follow the “must be cheap, cant be lame” wisdom from “Here Comes Another Bubble” (which had been repeating over and over for the past 30 minutes). Somehow at 3am that wisdom translated to mean “short” so I ended up getting 44billionlater.com. Don’t ask how cheap+lame = short…I have no sane answer.

Well today 44billionlater.com has received over 10k uniques. What the hell? I didn’t even tell that many people. It didn’t get on Digg, no major blogs have mentioned it, nobodies been spammed…but still, in the timespan of 24 hours, ten thousand people have found my little joke. I will admit that Stumbleupon did send the majority of those…what that means I have no idea. I’m just going to make a blanket statement and say that Stumbleupon is against Microsoft + Yahoo or, they just think its insanely funny.

Anyways, Internet, I love you.

…but you’re freaking weird.

P.S. - Microsoft + Yahoo scares me. Its a little too big for my taste.

February 2nd, 2008 | Mind A (Matt Schlicht) | No comments