Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Tuesday, August 17th, 2021. I'm Brian McCullough.

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Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

It's pretty rare to see a failed app or company return for a second chance at life,

especially when the app in question was controversial the first time. But Yick Y Yack the app that creates anonymous

message boards for users within a five mile radius returned to the US

iOS App Store yesterday after its 2017 shutdown.

Oh, and one more wrinkle to this story, at least at the time of this writing,

we don't know who's responsible for the App's resurrection, quoting mashable.

Details on the relaunch remain relatively scarce.

It just sort of showed up on Monday after being teased last week.

The announcement video, for some reason I cannot begin to unpack, featured

Brian Baumgartner, who played Kevin Malone on the office. Right now Yick Yack is available only

to iPhone users in the U.S. but the app promised it would launch for others soon.

In case you forgot Yick Yack Promises Anonymity, creating a forum and message board for users within a 5 mile radius.

The new version of the app appears pretty similar to how it used to look. My

radius, which extends five miles out from my apartment in Brooklyn, already had a number of New Yorkers

posting. Naturally, folks were already chatting about hooking up, gossiping, and the scars of the first version of Yick Yick.

The original version of Yick Yick was around for only a few years, 2013 through 2017,

but it made a major impact for better or worse. The first

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