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Master Of His Domain (4/26/99)
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Remember all that hoo-ha a couple of months ago about Apple trying to put the hurt on a seventeen-year-old Canadian kid over the registration of the appleimac.com domain name? Well, it's finally been resolved; Abdul Traya, who had been holding out for a donation of thirty iMacs to his school in exchange for turning the domain name over to Apple, has folded his hand and agreed to let Apple have what they want. His payment? A "pocketful of legal fees and a token payment," according to a Reuters article.
All in all, we think this Traya kid came out of the whole thing just dandy. After all, the publicity that the dispute kicked up gave him some half-million web visits just in the first week following the story's break. His home web-hosting business got a ton of attention. All in all, the press probably would never have even picked up on the story in the first place if he hadn't have been a teenager; a thirty-six-year-old doing the same thing would have been dismissed as a cybersquatter infringing blatantly on Apple's trademarks. Instead Traya gets his legal fees paid for and some cash to blow on penny whistles and moon pies. So we're happy that everyone else is happy.
The last time we checked, www.appleimac.com still pointed to a particularly surrealistic page titled "Welcome to my page about my dog!!" which includes a photo of an adorably confused-looking pup named "Goody" taken in 1996. Any day now we expect that it'll start pointing to Apple's main page, which we consider just, if not just slightly a shame. Sure, we think Apple had every right to go after the domain name in the interests of protecting its trademarks, but somehow we doubt they're going to do anything with it as truly bizarre as point it at a snapshot of a confused dog. Of course, if they do, then they're even cooler than we thought...
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 4/26/99 episode: April 26, 1999: Apple's upcoming Lombard PowerBook seems to be undergoing some serious last-minute plastic surgery. Meanwhile, Quake 3: Arena's first test release originally surfaces as a Mac-only download, and Apple's dispute over the appleimac.com domain name is resolved peacefully with the Canadian teen who was squatting on it...
Other scenes from that episode: 1485: Slimming The Curves (4/26/99) While the fun little activity of guessing about Apple's upcoming hardware is a fave party game in the domain of the Mac-specific rumors sites, it's relatively rare that you see the more generic news outlets joining in... 1486: Just Quaking Around (4/26/99) The Mac games world drifts ever deeper into the Twilight Zone. It used to be that one of the universal constants was the unflagging Mac hatred of id software's head honcho John Carmack. (Carmack, for those of you who don't follow such things, is the closest thing there is to a celebrity in the games development milieu; he's the one who brought the world Doom and Quake.)...
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