How famous brands were formed
Ever wonder how those big computers, IT brands were formed? Amazingly lots of them are derived from very strange circumstances. Check them out:
Adobe -This came from the name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
Apple Computers - It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. he was three months late in filing for a business, and he threatened to call his company Apple Computers if the other colleagues didn’t suggest a better name by 5 o’clock.
Compaq - This name was formed by using COMp for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.
Google - The name started as a joke boasting 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 projects to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to ‘Google’.
Hotmail - Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail 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 included the letters "html" - the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMail with selective upper-casing.
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.
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.
Microsoft - Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted t MICROcomputer SOFTware. Orignally christened Micro-Soft, the ‘-’ was removed later on.
