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She was fascinated by the "young people sitting on stools with laptops on their laps" (no table). It was supposed to show how "hip" and "techy" they were, with the dawn of the ( "commercial" ) world wide web. After awhile, she started calling them "Microwave" (for whatever reason... 
). I was like - "Ma? It's MSNBC!". No dice. "Turn on "Microwave". 
When Microsoft de-partnered from them, I recall some discussion about a name change but they opted against it at the time (perhaps due to the known "brand" ).
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