poprock wrote:The name ‘Wi-Fi’ was invented by a branding agency.
How’s that for the ultimate compliment on your work? Having it absorbed into everyday language?
(It was Interbrand, for those who care. Generally I quite like their work.)
It originally came with a slogan: “The standard for wireless fidelity”. I can see why that part didn’t catch on.
SpaceGazelle wrote:Python is named after Monty Python, but I think everyone knows that.
SpaceGazelle wrote:Python is named after Monty Python, but I think everyone knows that.
Yossarian wrote:Actually, talking of Monty-Python-related things that everyone probably knows: David Attenborough commissioned Monty Python when he was controller of BBC2.
Kow wrote:Apple was named after the apple that fell on Steve Jobs' head when he invented gravity.
The apple thing I know (and prob everyone else) is that an alert sound used in the OS was (is?) called sosumi...this is cos apple records and apple computers had an agreement that they could both use the apple name, so long as apple computers didn't create or publish any music..so the dev ended up calling the sound sosumi ("so sue me") to get it passed legal and said it was just a japanese word, nothing to do with music.Blue Swirl wrote:Heh. He'd have called it iFall. There's the legend that Apple, and the logo with the bite taken out, is inspired by Alan Turing's suicide by poison apple, but its not true.Kow wrote:Apple was named after the apple that fell on Steve Jobs' head when he invented gravity.
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