Interesting names of famous technology brands
Few people know the legends behind the names of brands like Apple, Sony, Facebook, Google... Behind each name is an interesting story. Let's learn about the legends behind the names of famous brands!
Why is it called Apple?As Steve Jobs explained, when the company started, it had to come up with a name to file a “business registration.” Initial suggestions included Matrix Electronics, but Apple Computer was eventually chosen, with the understanding that it would become the company name if no one else came up with a better suggestion before the deadline.
So why Apple? Jobs said, “Partly because I like apples a lot, and partly because Apple comes before Atari in the phone book, and I used to work at Atari.” In 2007, the company dropped the word “Computer” and became simply Apple.
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Origin of the name GoogleIt will also be interesting to you. The story of Google's name is famous: Google got its name from a deliberate misspelling of Googol, which is an abbreviation for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. Why? Simply because founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page wanted to encompass the vast amount of data they would put on the Internet.
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It's hard to imagine many people don't knowHow did Facebook get its name?given the global interest in the company – and of course, the movie about Facebook. However, it would be remiss not to mention Facebook in this article.
In short, it is simply the name that students of some universities in the US gave so that people can know a little bit, get acquainted with the people around. Initially, it was thefacebook.com and about 1 year after its launch in 2004, the company registered the trademark Facebook.com in 2005.
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Established in 2003,Skype is a company that is quite difficult to name., struggled with the lack of names that the company really wanted to use. As you can see, Skype is an obvious combination of “sky” and “peer-to-peer”, and was originally shortened to Skyper. But when it was put into use, it became Skype. The word Nokia comes from a city in Finland named Nokia. Nokia also operated in the pulp industry in this city of Nokia.
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Sony is a combination of two words:“Sonus” is Latin for sound and “Sonny” is an American slang term for a bright young man.
Cannon is a word derived from Kwanon– the Japanese name for Guanyin. In 1935, the company changed its name to Canon to better integrate into different markets and cultures.
Twitter originated as “twttr”, inspired by Flickr, according to Dom Sagolla, a colleague at Odeo where Jack Dorsey and Ev Williams also work. Twitter is perfect, with the definition of “a quick burst of information” and the chirping of a bird.
Instead of carrying the true meaning of the word “yahoo” (meaning a rude, loud, or violent person),Yahoo! is an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”,Although the founders also seemed to like the general definition of the name Yahoo.
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