Google, Yahoo !, Microsoft, Apple, Samsung etc. they are now names that continually recur in IT blogs, offices around the world and in all technological environments. They are the names of the pioneering internet and computer companies, which have made the history of the digital revolution in recent years, which are part of the lives of most people in the western world.
For a mere fact of curiosity it might be interesting to know the history of their names, how they were born and what origin they had.
In this article, we see how the 20 most famous brands in the internet and computer sectors were born and what they mean, especially looking for the most curious stories and hidden acronyms.
1) Amazon
The founder, Jeff Bezos, was looking for an exotic name and chose Amazon referring to the largest and fullest river in the world, the Amazon River indicating that his company was inspired by immensity concepts.
2) Twitter
The story tells of a draw between several names including Jitter, but it is more likely that the founders actually chose Twitter as the name because the site had to be made by twittering ( tweet ).
3) Yahoo!
The term was used by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's latest book of Travels who made this scream at two horses.
Yahoo founders Jerry Yang and David Filo chose this name because they considered themselves two louts and also because it stands for " Yet Another Hypertext Online Organizer ".
The exclamation mark was due to copyright for the word Yahoo.
4) Microsoft
Bill Gates coined this compound word for his company by combining the words Microcomputer and Software .
5) Samsung
The Korean company has the name made up of the words Sam (three) and Sung (stars) to indicate three corporate characteristics: large, powerful and numerous.
6) Nokia
Nokia was even founded in 180 and was a woodworking factory.
Its second mill was built on a river called Nokianvirta in the city of Nokia from which the Finnish company took its name.
7) Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith thought of an email service accessible via the web from a computer anywhere in the world.
Trying to match a term with the word mail, Hotmail was chosen because it included the letters " html ", the programming language used to write web pages.
8) XBox
In 2001, Microsoft Direct X software governed the graphics programming market so the developers called the console the " DirectX Box ", which later became the XBox.
9) SAW
SEGA simply means Service Games
10) Wii
The two letters ii symbolize two people playing together and the word Wii recalls, in English, the word We which means Us.
11) Google
Originally the search engine was called Googol, a term that refers to the figure formed by a 1 followed by 100 zeros.
The founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page then presented their project to an investor who made a check to Google .
To collect the money, the two were forced to change the company name to Google.
13) Instagram
The founders wanted a name to describe the act of recording something now, right now.
14) Cisco
The name is not an acronym, but an abbreviation for San Francisco .
The company logo reflects represents the stylized Golden Gate bridge.
15) EBay
eBay should have had a much longer name: Echo Bay Technology Group which was first reduced to Echo Bay which however had already been taken so the founder was forced to change it to eBay.com .
16) Ubuntu
Ubuntu is a Zulu word that means " humanity " and that is used to say " I am what I am thanks to who we all are "
17) Skype
Originally the name of the popular telephony software was Sky-Peer-to-Peer, which later became Skyper which was already taken and finally Skype .
18) Wikipedia
Wiki means " fast " in Hawaiian; Pedia instead comes from the word Encyclopedia .
19) Adobe
The name derives from the Adobe Creek river that flowed behind the home of the founder John Warnock.
20) Apple Computers
Apple means Apple which was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs.
Being late in submitting a name to launch the new company, he threatened his associates to find a name later in the day that would otherwise have been called Apple Computers.
The name has nothing to do with the Apple Beatles record company with which there were also rights issues.
21) INTEL is the fusion of the two words INTegrated ELectronics
22) SAP are the initials of the words Systems, Applications, Projects .
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