Q.968

"Once upon a time, a full stop met an exclamation. The exclamation decided to take over the full stop. This resulted in two exclamations."

This is a complicated way of explaining how, in May 2013, an uncouth being from "Gulliver's Travels" hooked up with a Lilliputian-type of online writing. Now explain this.

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This refers to Tumblr, the microblogging site, being acquired by Yahoo!, the internet company. The acquisition was officially announced by Yahoo's CEO on a Tumblr post titled "Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!" (referring to the "." in Tumblr's logo and the "!" in Yahoo's). The term "Yahoo" comes from the book "Gulliver's Travels" (see this), while "tumblelog" is a type of micro-blogging.

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