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Unintentially Geeky Joke In Apple's Share Price

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Tue, Jan 10th 2006 6:19pm — Mike Masnick
Unless you're the sort of person who immediately recognized why the folks at Google originally sought to raise $2,718,281,828 in its IPO, you might want to just pass over this story. A reporter at News.com noticed an extremely unintentional inside joke with Apple's closing share price today. On the very day the company officially announced its first Intel-based product, Apple's stock price closed at $80.86. If you don't get it, it's time to read up on your computer history. No, there is no way at all that this was intentional. However, that doesn't make it any less amusing.
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  • identicon
    Word, 10 Jan 2006 @ 7:27pm

    No Subject Given

    Haaa.......wtf Mike.

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      Josh Jones, 10 Jan 2006 @ 8:44pm

      Re: No Subject Given

      HAHA. yep.

      Does anyone recall when apple's stock was $2.86?

      Why was there no speculation about a switch in chips back then, eh?

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        Tom Robinson, 11 Jan 2006 @ 1:20am

        Re: No Subject Given

        Actually the full series number of the "286" was 80286. I'll be VERY impressed (not to mention rich ;-) ) when Apple's stock hits $802.86

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    discojohnson, 10 Jan 2006 @ 8:36pm

    No Subject Given

    yea but that's the crappy version without a math coprocessor

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    discojohnson, 10 Jan 2006 @ 8:44pm

    No Subject Given

    /hangs head in shame
    my bad, i was thinking sx vs dx processors. 8088 had the external 8 bit bus.

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    ccanni1028, 10 Jan 2006 @ 8:55pm

    Prepare to die.

    Warning: this site may experience an interruption due to the "digg effect". http://digg.com/apple/Unintentionally_Geeky_Joke_In_Apple_s_Share_Price

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    • identicon
      Anonymous Coward, 10 Jan 2006 @ 9:13pm

      Re: Prepare to die.

      STFU you dork. Digg sucks balls. SA, Slashdot and Fark own your stupid ass.

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      • identicon
        Anonymous Coward, 10 Jan 2006 @ 9:23pm

        Re: Prepare to die.

        Ooh! Websites owning websites!

        "I pwnz0red your get query, n00b."

        Christ.

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        cobra, 11 Jan 2006 @ 12:46am

        Re: Prepare to die.

        slashdot is gay. there is way more freedom on digg, not to mention the interface is a lot nicer. dont knock it till you try it,

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          Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2006 @ 1:26am

          Re: Prepare to die.

          losers bitching about how their favorite site is better than another's are fags.

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          • identicon
            Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2006 @ 3:50am

            Re: Prepare to die.

            And in other news, people who still use homosexual epithets for derogatory name calling need to grow up.

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              Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2006 @ 4:15am

              Re: Prepare to die.

              digg does have some cool memorable stuff on it...anyone that mentions digg in any shape or form positive or negativly...digg really apreciates it..and will be happy for a very very long time (*/ gets another hit on website */)

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                Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2006 @ 4:33am

                Re: Prepare to die.

                haha i never even heard of digg till this thing and from the 50 "I can Digg it"'s i think im scared to ever go back, wierded me out ill stick with /. and techdirt

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            anonymo, 11 Jan 2006 @ 5:14am

            Re: Prepare to die.

            Now how does a loser bitching about respective sites tell you that he's a guy (likely, but not certain) who likes other guys?

            Oh I get it, you're a maturity-challenged, uncertain -of-his-sexuality loser teen (although you could be in your early twenties who thinks "fag" "gay" and "homo" are insults....

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              hautedawg, 11 Jan 2006 @ 6:45am

              Re: Prepare to die.

              Those of us who are comfortable with our sexuality, who go to the store to by our ladies sanitary needs, obviously are puzzled by some low IQ oxygen thief trying to be clever and using derogatory terms in order to garner attention. I do feel pity for you my confused and latent friend. It is folks like yourself that give us straight people a bad name. Perhaps you should go back behind the barn and play with your siblings.

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                anonymo, 11 Jan 2006 @ 12:32pm

                Re: Prepare to die.

                Me? I was insulting the guy who thinks "Fag" is an insult.

                I'm of the same mind as you...

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          • identicon
            man, 30 Jan 2006 @ 8:20pm

            Re: Prepare to die.

            i agree

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          Anonymous Coward, 11 Jan 2006 @ 2:28am

          Re: Prepare to die.

          might be hard to comprehend... but slash and digg both have strwngths and weeknesses.

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      • identicon
        asdf, 11 Jan 2006 @ 2:37pm

        Re: Prepare to die.

        How on God's green earth can you endorse Fark and Something Awful in the same sentence?

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      Mike (profile), 10 Jan 2006 @ 9:15pm

      Re: Prepare to die.

      Warning: this site may experience an interruption due to the "digg effect".

      Hmm. I doubt it. We've been on the front page of Digg many times, as well as Slashdot, and neither have been able to take us down yet. So, welcome folks from Digg.

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  • identicon
    Lark, 10 Jan 2006 @ 9:33pm

    No Subject Given

    Heh, the tech gods have blessed Apple today.

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    Dr Benway, 10 Jan 2006 @ 9:42pm

    No Subject Given

    I would be more impressed with $65.02 or $68.00

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    • identicon
      Anonymous Coward, 10 Jan 2006 @ 10:46pm

      Re: No Subject Given

      Closing at $65.02 would be cool. But closing at $680.00 would be truly impressive...

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        Anonymous Coward, 10 Jan 2006 @ 10:53pm

        Re: No Subject Given

        Of course a ten-fold increase like that would be impressive... ;-)

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    • identicon
      Jim, 10 Jan 2006 @ 11:32pm

      Re: No Subject Given

      My bank account likes 80.86 much more than 65.02. Of course we all love the 65xx series processors.

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      George, 11 Jan 2006 @ 9:21am

      Re: No Subject Given

      No, somehow I'm quite happe with the stock price where it is. Don't think I wanna give up $15 per share for that novelty. Of course if we could make it go to 68000 cents, that'd be cool - both for the more correct number AND my stock portfolio.
      And to those immature fledglings flaming about Digg, /. or whatever: Hush now, and take your bitching somewhere else! How can you get so worked up about a website? Who cares?

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      • identicon
        stizz, 11 Jan 2006 @ 9:44am

        sigh

        sigh,

        back when In 2000 when I left Amazon, I sold all my devalued AMZN stock for much less than what I paid. Wishing to close out my portfolio completely, I sold of all my Apple Stock too; for a whopping 15$ a share. Of course I am kicking myself.

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    • identicon
      Don, 11 Jan 2006 @ 10:44am

      Re: No Subject Given

      What about Z80? Now that would be impressive.

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    kissle, 10 Jan 2006 @ 9:53pm

    No Subject Given

    digg users are a bunch of pompous kevin rose worshipping tweens... grow up already.

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  • identicon
    Roomba, 10 Jan 2006 @ 10:43pm

    Cool

    8086, No lets see if intel stock will spell out Apple

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  • identicon
    Hitchiker, 11 Jan 2006 @ 1:33am

    I'm glad

    I'm glad to see that it wasn't 42.

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  • identicon
    Notany, 11 Jan 2006 @ 5:06am

    It can be intentional

    If price has been below 80.86$, some rich nerd may have offered 80.86$ and there it is, then. It can be done.

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    JohnF, 11 Jan 2006 @ 5:50am

    No Subject Given

    Wow, I guessed that before I followed the link! I'm impressed.

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  • identicon
    Tom Cunningham, 11 Jan 2006 @ 7:38am

    Not intentional?

    What do you mean that "there is no way that this was intentional"? Closing prices are pretty easy to manipulate. How big was the last lot of Apple sold?

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  • identicon
    Sir Reginald Kenneth Dwight, 11 Jan 2006 @ 8:27am

    Check your spelling

    There is no such word as "unintentially".

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  • identicon
    Paul123, 11 Jan 2006 @ 8:32am

    Just as Strange

    Just as strange, after Howard Stern took the airwaves on Sirius on Monday the Sirius stock was at $6.66 Here's a link to the screen cap http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/2530/siristock6665gq.jpg
    We'll have to keep our eyes out for more signs from the stock gods ;-)

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  • identicon
    Anonymous, 11 Jan 2006 @ 10:00am

    unintensional? why?

    All you have to do is have a group of investors agree that at the very last moment of trading, they will strike a deal at that amount per share. Bingo, free advertising.

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      George, 11 Jan 2006 @ 10:10am

      Re: unintensional? why?

      > All you have to do is have a group of investors agree that at the very last moment of trading, they will strike a deal at that amount per share. Bingo, free advertising.< br>
      Don't be silly. Investors have other things on their minds than silly geek number games. Like profits, for example. So who would pay for such a "deal"? So much for "free" advertising...

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  • identicon
    Paula, 11 Jan 2006 @ 12:46pm

    I'm such a geek

    Oh my gosh... I actually understood the "joke"... what a major geek I am. I remember supporting some 8086's back when I first started in the computer field.

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    Troll Police, 11 Jan 2006 @ 3:42pm

    Attention

    Only one day, and we all have forgotten: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060109/1012239_F.shtml You have benn warned! :)

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  • identicon
    bildekor, 13 Apr 2006 @ 7:31pm

    Down

    Although I think the price will go down with Bootcamp.

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  • identicon
    Joke Buddha, 11 Dec 2010 @ 12:56am

    Nice coincidence! :)

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