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He's Got A Scar, Too (3/30/00)
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What better way to start off the weekend than with a quick but ominous portent of doom? Hey, it beats workin'. A couple of days ago we mentioned that MacInsider, a rumors site that shut itself down amid mounting scandal in 1997, appears to be gearing up for a rebirth. Visiting the page now lists a teaser promising "MacInsider Reborn," and some links to email addresses so excited visitors can request advertising info or submit juicy tidbits. There's nothing so frightening about that, right?
But then faithful viewer Tony Misasi (who's actually been tuning into AtAT long enough to remember the original MacInsider scandal!) had to go digging a little deeper. The previous scandal came to light based largely on DNS registration records, which strongly suggested that MacInsider was run by a Mac reseller called Computers Plus, who misrepresented itself to advertisers and violated Apple nondisclosure agreements to post its "inside info." So Tony figured he'd look up the registration info for macinsider.com. Says Tony, "pay particular attention to the contact name... Very ominous and secretive." For, you see, macinsider.com is registered to someone known only as "The Boss."
Now, either Bruce Springsteen moved to Tempe, AZ and is getting into the Mac rumormongering business, or "The Boss" is a bald, monocled man in a Nehru jacket who smiles evilly while stroking his white Persian cat. Take your pick. Personally, we're opting for the latter, and so we eagerly await the relaunch of MacInsider: Macintosh News, Rumors, and World Domination. We smell drama.
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 3/30/00 episode: March 30, 2000: Microware fires back: the company plans to appeal its loss after suing Apple for misappropriating the "OS-9" name. Meanwhile, rumor has it that Apple's considering a monitorless iMac for picky types, and MacInsider's incipient rebirth gains ominous overtones upon a close inspection of DNS registration records...
Other scenes from that episode: 2191: The Obligatory Appeal (3/30/00) The thing about lawsuits is, no matter how crushing and final the verdict may seem, there's always the appeal. In particular we're thinking about Microware's trademark infringement suit against Apple for naming the latest Macintosh operating system "Mac OS 9."... 2192: Monitor Not Included (3/30/00) When Steve Jobs returned to Apple a few years back, the product list was a mess. There were eight kazillion products and they were all named with cryptic numbers that were meaningless unless you owned the secret decoder ring...
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