The name COMPAQ was formed by using COMP for
computer and PAQ to denote small integral object. Recently COMPAQ has joined
forces with HP in the digital gadgets world. The name HP was formed from the
two tech guys Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard when they had to toss a coin to decide whether to
call the company Hewlett Packard or
Packard Hewlett am sure you know who won the honor definitely Hewlett that is
why we have Hewlett Packard (HP) today.
The legendary
Google started its name as a joke boasting
about the amount of information the search engine would be able to search. It
was originally named Googol a world for the number represented by one followed
by 100 zeros. After founders Stanford graduates students Sergey Bin and Larry Page presented their
project to an angel investor, they receive a cheque made out to ‘Google’.
Hint:
Apple was the favorite fruits of the founder Steve Jobs. He was three month
late in filling 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
guess what happened ……
The world Yahoo was invented by Jonathan Swift and
used in his book ‘Gulliver’s Travels’. It represents a person who is repulsive
in appearance and action is barely human. Yahoo founders Jerry
Young and David Filo selected
the name because they considered themselves yahoos.
Bob Noyce
and Gordon Moore wanted
to name their new company ‘Moore Noyce’ but they were unlucky since the name
was already trademarked by the hotel chain so they named their company using acronyms
INTEgrated
ELectronics also known as ‘INTEL’.
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 it included the letters “html” the
programming languages used to write web pages. Hotmail was later on bought by
Microsoft which stands for MICROcomputer SOFTwares coined by Bill Gates
originally christened Micro-Soft the ‘-‘was removed later.