X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.
So yea, he’s been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there’s also Tesla Model X.
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Apparently Elon has a thing for the letter X. SpaceX, naming his son “X Æ A-12”, and now renaming Twitter.
Can he legally change his son’s name to use the new x?
𝕏 Æ A-𝕏ii
Apparently according to Elon his wife came up with most of the name
X.com was the startup Musk (and others) launched in 1999. It merged with another startup to create PayPal in 2000. Musk bought the X.com domain back a few years ago.
So yea, he’s been obsessed with the letter X for a while. Other than SpaceX, there’s also Tesla Model X.
Who could blame the greatest minds from being entranced by a mysterious “X”?
My personal favorite X
Not risking that click 😉
PS. Is Rick-Rolling allowed here, or was that just on R?
It’s X from the Mega Man X video game series.
But SpaceX at least is only short for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation
Yeah, nothing to do with a man-child giggling that it sounds like space-sex a bit.
But they don’t do exploration? They just do orbit stuff
Yet
Spac Explorathun.
“Schadenfreude ist die beste Freude” :p
Facebook/Meta owns the trademark for “X” for use in social networking.
Microsoft owns the trademark for “X” for use in finance/e-commerce.
https://themessenger.com/tech/twitters-rebrand-to-x-could-be-a-trademark-nightmare-thanks-to-microsoft
Model X is called that because he wanted the models to spell SEXY - but Ford still owns “Model E” so he had to go with S3XY instead.
What a tool.