Let me preface this by swearing I am not making any of this up...
Before 63 did a Stalinist purge number on Boblida, I looked at his profile page. It was in Russian, but using Google Translate I managed to figure out that he/she was in the Stroller business-making or selling strollers for tots and toddlers.
Now, according to Google, alternate meanings for the Russian word for "stroller" include "tramp, vagabond, hobo, vagrant, and drifter". I would bet a dollar to a donut that Boblida figured by its name that Ramblermania was a website dedicated to Americans crazy about strollers, and, wanting to enter the American market, he signed up.
Where Webmeup fits in, I'm not sure, but I bet it had something to do with the fact that some Ukrainian stroller merchant, using the Ukrainian counterpart of Google, was able to find Ramblermania .
Ain't the internet and capitalism wonderful?!?
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