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Back, And To The Left (7/23/98)
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Okay, this one's just plain weird... Faithful viewer Kellie made us aware of a strange URL: <http://women.are.evil.and.icky.net/>. That alone is weird enough. But what freaks us out is that if you follow the link, you don't end up at one of the thousands of screwball misogynistic feminist-bashing "Hillary Clinton just needs a real man"-type sites on the 'net. Instead, you find yourself staring at something much more sinister and frightening.
That's right; for some bizarre reason, <http://women.are.evil.and.icky.net/> jumps you over to the information page for the Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack. We found that just a little bit too strange to ignore, so we decided to see who had registered the "icky.net" domain name. The InterNIC whois lookup reveals that the owner of "icky.net" is some unknown entity known as "The Winc Group" from Old Hickory, Tennessee. An Alta Vista search on the phrase "winc group" reveals a handful of pages on another server, <http://www.the.oilers.nickname.is.icky.net/>. It's simply a source of information about "Tennessee's NFL team." Curiouser and curiouser.
The construction of an appropriate conspiracy theory is left as an exercise for the viewer. C'mon, this one's easy; we can't do everything for you people, ya know. Look at the basic elements: you've got your Microsoft, your unrelated and slightly offensive URL, and your standard mysterious third party consortium standing behind the grassy knoll and registering domain names with the InterNIC. How can you go wrong?
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 | | The above scene was taken from the 7/23/98 episode: July 23, 1998: Apple gets dragged into the whole "Redmond Justice" fracas, amid allegations that Microsoft tried to squelch Quicktime for Windows. Meanwhile, TBWA Chiat/Day racks up an Emmy nomination for the "Think Different" ad, and a viewer uncovers a fiendish connection between Windows NT and a combination anti-woman anti-Oilers sentiment, or something...
Other scenes from that episode: 877: Apple on the Stand (7/23/98) The Department of Justice sure is one busy little beehive, at least when it comes to investigating Microsoft's alleged anticompetitive practices. Ever since the original "Redmond Justice" case flared up last year, the DoJ has kept digging and digging to uncover more evidence of Microsoft's business tomfoolery... 878: Think Award Night (7/23/98) The folks hanging around the AtAT office aren't particularly fond of most award shows. Sure, beauty pageants are always a hoot and a holler, especially when everyone clustered around the TV arrives at the conclusion that none of the entrants is particularly engaging...
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