About company names
Director of the SA, Izmestyev Dmitry
Stories about the names of companies are quite common, but this is no less interesting to read. The other day I got another funny article from this series. About IT companies, of course. (You can read it completely here: www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/how-popular-tech-companies-got-their-names ).
Here I bring something that I especially liked.
Cisco Do you know what a Cisco logo looks like? What does he mean? Well yes. This is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. And Cisco is just a shortcut from San Francisco.
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Apple This is Steve Jobs' favorite fruit. When they registered the business, they were already three months late in order to give it a name. And you need to urgently come up with something. Jobs threatened that if no one came up with anything sensible, he would call the company first to come to mind, at least Apple Computers. The best that the rest of the team members managed to give birth was five-o'clock.
Corel Named after the founder of the company, Michael Copeland (Dr. Michael Cowpland). COwpland REsearch Laboratory (Copeland Research Lab) is deciphered. Modestly.
Google Originally called Googol word, which denotes a figure consisting of one and one hundred zeros. In this title a certain boastful hint was laid that the system could find the answer to so many questions. After the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented the project to investors and received money for development, it turned out that the check was sent to Google. They did not change anything.
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard threw a coin to decide which name would be first in the name. As you know, Bill won.
Intel Bob Noyce (Bob Noyce) and Gordon Moore (Gordon Moore) wanted to name the company Moore Noyce, but by that time there was already a network of hotels with this name. So they decided to dwell on the abbreviation of INTegrated ELectronics.
Microsoft MICROcomputer SOFTware. The name suggested by Bill Gates. Originally written as Micro-Soft. Then the dash was removed.
Oracle Founders Alison and Ots worked on a project for the CIA. The project was called Oracle and had to give answers to all questions. The project has been stopped. But the founders decided to continue its development on their own. Now we all know what came of it.
Stories about the names of companies are quite common, but this is no less interesting to read. The other day I got another funny article from this series. About IT companies, of course. (You can read it completely here: www.makeuseof.com/tech-fun/how-popular-tech-companies-got-their-names ).
Here I bring something that I especially liked.
Cisco Do you know what a Cisco logo looks like? What does he mean? Well yes. This is the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. And Cisco is just a shortcut from San Francisco.
')
Apple This is Steve Jobs' favorite fruit. When they registered the business, they were already three months late in order to give it a name. And you need to urgently come up with something. Jobs threatened that if no one came up with anything sensible, he would call the company first to come to mind, at least Apple Computers. The best that the rest of the team members managed to give birth was five-o'clock.
Corel Named after the founder of the company, Michael Copeland (Dr. Michael Cowpland). COwpland REsearch Laboratory (Copeland Research Lab) is deciphered. Modestly.
Google Originally called Googol word, which denotes a figure consisting of one and one hundred zeros. In this title a certain boastful hint was laid that the system could find the answer to so many questions. After the founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin presented the project to investors and received money for development, it turned out that the check was sent to Google. They did not change anything.
HP (Hewlett-Packard) Founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard threw a coin to decide which name would be first in the name. As you know, Bill won.
Intel Bob Noyce (Bob Noyce) and Gordon Moore (Gordon Moore) wanted to name the company Moore Noyce, but by that time there was already a network of hotels with this name. So they decided to dwell on the abbreviation of INTegrated ELectronics.
Microsoft MICROcomputer SOFTware. The name suggested by Bill Gates. Originally written as Micro-Soft. Then the dash was removed.
Oracle Founders Alison and Ots worked on a project for the CIA. The project was called Oracle and had to give answers to all questions. The project has been stopped. But the founders decided to continue its development on their own. Now we all know what came of it.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/97616/
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