It stands for chwitzerland

Exactly. People started using and are still using Whatsapp because it allows global, free communication. When it started getting popular, greedy service providers were still charging several euro cents for a few bytes of data sent via SMS, even to the same network, of course people went for the free alternative (I actually installed Viber before WhatsApp).

Nowadays it still has the advantage of being free when communicating abroad. I travel a lot, and calls from foreign countries, sometimes on different continents, are expensive and low in quality; a local data SIM on my dual sim phone allows me to call friends and relatives at home with the same ease as a normal phone call and without crazy costs.

Carmageddon

Hey Trekkies are top nerd, would you expect any less? Godspeed brothers. I grew up with TNG and it warms my heart that it’s still going strong, we definitely need some of that optimism for the future.

I’m sure that subconsciously influenced the decision at least a bit. Plus the whole socialist and “fuck money” attitude in Trek.

I’m skeptical about these claims. If they wanted to do that, why start with AdviceAnimals? Why not funny or pics?

Who cares? We’re here now, the only thing we should hope it’s that the good content creators move from reddit to here, aside from that, they may do what they want with the site from here on.

You can copy the address of the search result into the way back machine or Google cache