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The Accidental Internet Owner: A Surprising Tale
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This man woke up one morning and accidentally owned the internet. 0:04 – 0:12 · SETUP In 1994, a regular guy named Gary forgot to renew his parking permit. The city sent him a fine — to the wrong address. 0:12 – 0:20 · BUILD That address? A warehouse no one used. Gary appealed the fine — and to prove his point, he started documenting every city error he could find. 0:20 – 0:26 · TWIST His documentation became one of the first public databases ever uploaded to the web. It's still live. You've probably used a site built on
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