Well, perhaps not.. but certainly, something very strange is going on.
Back in June 2008, technology uber-blog TechCrunch announced its own news aggregator service called “TechNews” which had more than a passing similarity to Reddit.
TechCrunch announced that the system was currently on one of its test servers.
Whatever happened next to TechNews is lost in the mists of time.. all I know for sure is that it didn’t set the world on fire.
So, what happens if you visit technews.techcrunch.com today? Here’s what you see:
And yes, that really is technews.techcrunch.com that I have visited. Check the url in the browser’s location bar if you don’t believe me.
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