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[–] DaCrazyJamez@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a reference to the Voyager space program,which followed the Apollo space program. Apollo was the name of the reddit app for iOS that was very popular, and had many of the same features

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And the URL vger is a reference to this.

[–] randomuser38529@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s weird. I’m currently on Memmy, when I tap your link it stops at V , skipping ‘ger entirely. Though I ended up inside of Memory Alpha, all I got was:

V

There is currently no text in this page. You can search for this page title in other pages, or search the related logs, but you do not have permission to create this page.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Memmy didn't copy the link correctly - the apostrophe is tripping it up. Search "V'ger" on Memory Alpha.