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How this site came to live at sidney.com | Sidney Hough

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There are 200,000 or so Sidneys in the world, so I’m lucky to be able to use sidney.com. In April 2022 I reached out to sidney.com’s owner, Sidney Markowitz, to see if he was open to selling. It was good from the get-go that he was a real human with an email address, a retired software engineer/MIT grad now living in New Zealand. He told me he liked my writings at the time but wasn’t selling because the domain had sentimental value to him. I thanked him and forgot about it for a while. A year later, it occurred to me that Sidney’s social world was probably distinct enough from mine that it…

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