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Ashura
Unstopable
Posts: 370

1. Why is Apple-Computer Macintosh called MAC?
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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?
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iMac

3. Why is the search engine Google called Google?
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The name comes from misspelling of "googol, gogol", the Number 1 followed by 100 Zeros.

4. What is "Adobe"?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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"Atari" is a game situation in the game "Go".

8. Why BenQ?
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Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to Life

9. Sony as...?
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Sony is a word-mix of the latin word "sonus" meaning "sound/tone" and the english word "sunny"

10. Abbreviation IMB?
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International Business Machines

11. Name "Compaq"?
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"Compaq" is a word-mixture from "comp" for computer, and "paq" which hints a small integral object.

12. Cisco? Ö.ö
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of course the San FranCISCO!

13. the SUN is shining but was it originally named after the sun of Milky Way star cluster?
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The name Sun is actually coming from the abbreviation for "Stanford University Network"

14. Who is Hewlett Packard?
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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?
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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.