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Web enthusiast changes name to '.com'
April 11, 2001
Web posted at: 1:56 PM EDT (1756 GMT)
JERUSALEM -- First there was the Artist Formerly Known As Prince. Now, there is tomer.com, the computer programmer formerly known as Tomer Krrissi.
Friends simply call him ".com."
The Israeli Interior Ministry initially balked at his application, claiming a name couldn't include punctuation marks, the 25-year-old man told the daily Maariv newspaper. But after studying the law, he found there was no such provision and officials backed down.
The newspaper illustrated his story with a photograph of his new Israeli passport, with the entry ".COM (KRRISSI)," under "family name."
"People who don't use the Internet think what I have done is just a gimmick, but the Internet changed my life. It opened up my head," he said.
"I think the idea is simply more functional. I see surnames, which have meaning as archeological artifacts, and I wanted to give mine some significance for myself in the year 2001," he told Reuters by telephone Tuesday.
"Say I meet a girl, for instance, and I don't get her number. That could have been a missed opportunity, but now it won't be because she'll always know where to find me," said .com.
.com, from Ramat Gan in central Israel, said he was a recovering Internet addict who at one time spent about 12 hours a day on the Web.
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"I think the idea is simply more functional. I see surnames, which have meaning as archeological artifacts, and I wanted to give mine some significance for myself in the year 2001," he told Reuters by telephone Tuesday.
Uhm... how does .com have any significance?!!!!! He is not a company!!!
He should call himself .net.
Or better yet: luser or 1user.
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who at one time spent about 12 hours a day on the Web.
12 hours!! thats not "big", quite a few times ive done, 12 hours, 16 hours, and my longest i think is just over 18 hours! now beat that Mr.com!! MWAUAHAHAHA
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12 hours!! thats not "big", quite a few times ive done, 12 hours, 16 hours, and my longest i think is just over 18 hours! now beat that Mr.com!! MWAUAHAHAHA
Yay "Muwahahahaha" is back! Does this mean you're back to your usual self now?