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Old 10-20-2005, 09:27 PM   #1 (permalink)
 
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Some one was telling me about an online store called EggHead, they were sayign it was the biggest or whatever, the most common. I had never heard of it, but i had heard of Newegg.com of course. I dod some research and it turns out egghead seemed to go bancurupt like 4-5 years ago, and i would assume with a name liek "new"egg, it is the nexte gghead, but is it teh same people, did the buy the company, or is it some one knocking off the name? i noticed that amazon.com has bought the domain name, so i wasnt sure. Is anyone an old enough techie to know the story?
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Interesting. I know nothing about it.

Found this though: http://www.computerhope.com/comp/egghead.htm
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Old 10-21-2005, 01:18 AM   #3 (permalink)
 
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yea i saw that but i still haevnt seen anything linking the two sites. hmmmm.
edit- http://www.epinions.com/content_1374...6/show_~allcom
looks like i found teh answer, they are NOT related, if i didnt like newegg so much i would hate them for using the name and gaining customers off of it.
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i remember buying doom 95 from egghead.

then like 3 years later they tore it down and put a hallmark in it
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Old 10-21-2005, 06:32 AM   #5 (permalink)
 
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here we go again, remember how Tiger Direct got ****ed at Apple for using Tiger in the name of thier new os Mac Os X Tiger.
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Interesting...it seems like a good enough reason since there's really no other explanation as to why they're called newegg

I think this is better for off topic though
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Egg Head is a Batman Villian

(now of those forgettable ones at that too.)
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