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The <new popular thing> is the new <old busted thing> is a great way to get up voted.

Here are some candidates I could try.

Android is the new Ford Pinto

Facebook is the new Absolute Monarchism

YCombinator is the new Standard Oil

Tesla Motors is the new Netscape

Cerulean is the new Azure



Hacker News is the new Reddit

:OOO


Verizon is the new GTE


X is the new Y is the new Top 10 List Blog Post.


Does that mean this would be the ultimate linkbait heading: "Top 10 Xs that are the new Ys, plus puppies."


Top 10 Xs that are the new Ys, with benchmarks vs Redis, Mongo and MySQL!


Top 10 Xs that are the new Ys with benchmark vs Redis, Mongo and MySQL and why it proves google is evil.


Google Offers is the new Google Wave


Hell, Google is the new IBM.


A famous one is "Google is the new Microsoft". Unfortunately people forget many of the bad things (including anti-competitive crimes!) MS did in the past.


I don't think the people who are saying that mean it as a compliment.


Just wait until you hear: "Apple is the new Google"




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