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DBS.US · 02-04-2010, 08:10 PM

Apple Computers
Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock.

Yahoo!
The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

Xerox
The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson , named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

Sun Microsystems
Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network.

Sony
From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.

SAP
"Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM.

Red Hat
Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone!

Oracle
Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such).

Motorola
Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola.

Microsoft
It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on.

Lotus
Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or 'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

Intel
Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.

Hewlett-Packard
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.

Hotmail
Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings.

Google
The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google

Cisco
The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco . The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge .

Apache
It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache.

Adobe
The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

$5 submissions · 02-04-2010, 08:12 PM

Great list.

Wasn't there a differing story re Yahoo's naming....? Yet Another Hierarchically Ordered...something I'm not sure, just heard about that alternate story somwhere...

DBS.US · 02-04-2010, 08:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Wasn't there a differing story re Yahoo's naming....?

From wikipedia
In January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo were Electrical Engineering graduate students at Stanford University. In April 1994, "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web" was renamed "Yahoo!", for which the official backronym is "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". Filo and Yang said they selected the name because they liked the word's general definition, which comes from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift: "rude, unsophisticated and uncouth". Its URL was akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!

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CYF · 02-04-2010, 09:18 PM

nice list. I knew a couple of those, but the other were interesting as well.

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BABY RUTH CANDY BAR

The Baby Ruth candy bar was NOT named after Babe Ruth, but after "Baby" Ruth Cleveland, the daughter of former President Grover Cleveland in 1921. The Yankee legend did endorse a knock-off called "Babe Ruth Home Run Bar," but Baby Ruth's bosses went to court and forced the competitor off the market.

CRACKER JACK

Candy coated popcorn, peanuts and a prize -- that's what you get in Cracker Jack! The popular treat got its name when a salesman, sampling the mix for the first time in 1899, exclaimed, "That's crackerjack!" -- meaning very good. And a snack star was born.

DR. PEPPER

Wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too? In 1885, Charles Alderton, the inventor of Dr Pepper soft drink, named the beverage after Dr. William R. Pepper of Virginia when the doctor refused to allow his daughter Minerva to marry Alderton, who was from Waco, Texas. The strategy didn't work and Alderton married another woman, but the name stuck. And it's a good thing . . . Alderton originally called the drink "Waco."

HERSHEY'S KISSES

The candy, invented by Milton S. Hershey in 1907, is named for the sound the machine nozzles made as they squirted out each dollop of chocolate.

LITTLE DEBBIE SNACK CAKES

The treats from the McKee Baking Company of Tennessee are named after the founder's granddaughter, Debbie McKee, who was a young girl in 1960 when she posed for the picture on the packages.

MILK DUDS

The chocolates were created in 1926 when the maker, F. Hoffman & Company of Chicago, tried to produce a perfectly round candy and instead mistakenly made lopsided, but delicious, "duds."

TOOTSIE ROLL

The chewy treats were named for "Tootsie," the 5-year-old daughter of inventor Leo Hirshfield, an Austrian immigrant, who began selling the treats in New York City in 1905.

DAIRY QUEEN

Who's the original Dairy Queen? Company founder J.F. McCullough came up with the name in 1940 when the first ice-cream store opened in Joliet, Ill. He said it was in honor of the real queen of the dairy industry -- the cow!

DIAL SOAP

Dial became a brand in 1948 because execs at the Armour Soap Co. wanted to get across the idea that it offered round-the-clock protection. To emphasize the point, they used a clock dial for the emblem.

IVORY SOAP

The white soap came about by accident in 1879, after a Procter & Gamble employee left the mixing machine on when he went to lunch, and got too much air into the soap he was making. The extra whipping made the 99 44/100 percent pure soap float and gave the product one of its greatest selling points.

BUDWEISER BEER

Brewmeister Carl Conrad christened his beer Budweiser after the Bohemian town of Budweis in 1876, because the townsfolk were famous for making a similar-style beer (not because it made Bud Wiser).

VICTORIA'S SECRET

Just what IS Victoria's Secret? Ironically, the sexy lingerie company bought by Leslie Wexner, owner of The Limited clothing chain in 1982, was named after prudish Queen Victoria.

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DBS.US Geo Cities Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: North Captiva Island, Florida USA Posts: 11,842	How famous companies were named Apple Computers Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clock. Yahoo! The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver's Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos. Xerox The Greek root "xer" means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson , named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying. Sun Microsystems Founded by four Stanford University buddies, Sun is the acronym for Stanford University Network. Sony From the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster. SAP "Systems, Applications, Products in Data Processing", formed by four ex-IBM employees who used to work in the 'Systems/Applications/Projects' group of IBM. Red Hat Company founder Marc Ewing was given the Cornell lacrosse team cap (with red and white stripes) while at college by his grandfather. He lost it and had to search for it desperately. The manual of the beta version of Red Hat Linux had an appeal to readers to return his Red Hat if found by anyone! Oracle Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The code name for the project was called Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or something such). Motorola Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was called Victrola. Microsoft It was coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICROcomputer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed later on. Lotus Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from the lotus position or 'padmasana.' Kapor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Intel Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company ' Moore Noyce' but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain, so they had to settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. Hewlett-Packard Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. Hotmail Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing email via the web from a computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and finally settled for Hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casings. Google The name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google Cisco The name is not an acronym but an abbreviation of San Francisco . The company's logo reflects its San Francisco name heritage. It represents a stylized Golden Gate Bridge . Apache It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server - thus, the name Apache. Adobe The name came from the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. __________________ Have an unused domain? Make a Free Chaturbate White Label site and be making money tonight

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