Ashura Unstopable Posts: 370
| 1. Why is Apple-Computer Macintosh called MAC?
Quote: | Apples Macintosh is named after the McIntosh variety of apple common in the USA. | 2. First Apple console, which had the char "i" infront its name?
3. Why is the search engine Google called Google?
Quote: | The name comes from misspelling of "googol, gogol", the Number 1 followed by 100 Zeros. | 4. What is "Adobe"?
Quote: | Adobe is the name of the river Adobe Creek that flows behind the house of founder John Warnock. | 5. Why is Oracle named after CIA-Project?
Quote: | because the CIA emploees also known Oracle founders: Larry Ellison, Ed Oates and Bob Miner were working on it... | 6. Why is Yahoo named Yahoo?
Quote: | The word "yahoo" comes from the book "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, which means "rude, unsophisticated, uncouth." | 7. What is the meaning behing the name of the Computer company Atari?
Quote: | "Atari" is a game situation in the game "Go". | 8. Why BenQ?
Quote: | Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life | 9. Sony as...?
Quote: | Sony is a word-mix of the latin word "sonus" meaning "sound/tone" and the english word "sunny" | 10. Abbreviation IMB?
Quote: | International Business Machines | 11. Name "Compaq"?
Quote: | "Compaq" is a word-mixture from "comp" for computer, and "paq" which hints a small integral object. | 12. Cisco? Ö.ö
Quote: | of course the San FranCISCO! | 13. the SUN is shining but was it originally named after the sun of Milky Way star cluster?
Quote: | The name Sun is actually coming from the abbreviation for "Stanford University Network" | 14. Who is Hewlett Packard?
Quote: | Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard had to toss a coin in order to decide whether the company they founded would be named Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett. | 15. Intel as intelligent?
Quote: | actually nope... at the beginning Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their company ‘Moore Noyce’ but it was already trademarked by a hotel chain . Thank God they settled it as an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics. |
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