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The strange history of IT company names

Ankit Sud has posted a list of the stories behind some top IT companies and brands.

You can read how RedHat got its name from a Cornell University lacrosse cap. Learn how apples are Steve Jobs’ favourite fruit and how he “threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock”. Find out – or even remember – that Hotmail was once called “HoTMaiL”.

Ponder how things would be if Intel had ended up being called “‘Moore Noyce”.

Marvel that the whole post, packed with pop-up clicksor ads, is ripped off without attribution from a longer list on day2day activities.

What is it with some Indian bloggers ? A cultural thing for which I should show more respect or something else?apple, steve jobs, intel, hotmail, redhat, cornell, lacrosse, it companies, Internet, email

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7 Responses to “The strange history of IT company names”

  1. mike says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 3:18 am

    The indian bloggers link is bad…I get a 404

  2. Brady J. Frey says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 4:59 am

    same here

    Yeah, common to rip off writing it seems now adays… common for people without talent.

  3. sjk says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 5:06 am

    Find out – or even remember – that Hotmail was once called ?¢‚Ǩ?ìHoTMaiL?¢‚Ǩ¬ù.

    Geeze, I do remember that! Maybe around the time I gave AOL the AsshOLe moniker. :)

  4. Tim says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 7:15 am

    mike: Sorry about that. It was a bad internal link. Fixed now.

  5. Brady J. Frey says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 7:52 am

    Almost fixed:

    a http://www.hawkwings.net/2006/02/24/nine-reasons-not-to-worry-about-gmail/"

    missing href="

  6. Tim says:
    March 8th, 2006 at 8:50 am

    I always distrust “quick fixes”.

    Better to take things one step at a time :)

  7. Rahul Singh says:
    December 2nd, 2007 at 9:44 pm

    You do realise that the longer list you refer too is also copied from Wikipedia which does permit copying of content. So your whole post is basically useless bickering.

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