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Apache got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA’s httpd daemon. The result was ‘A PAtCHy’ server — thus, the name Apache

Apple Computers favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing 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.

C – Dennis Ritchie improved on the B programming language and called it ‘New B’. He later called it C. Earlier B was created by Ken Thompson as a revision of the Bon programming language (named after his wife Bonnie)

CISCO – its not an acronymn but the short for San Francisco.

Compaq – using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small integral object.

GNU – a species of African antelope. Founder of the GNU project Richard Stallman liked the name because of the humour associated with its pronuniciation and was also influenced by the children’s song ‘The Gnu Song’ which is a song sung by a gnu. Also it fitted into the recursive acronym culture with ‘GNU’s Not Unix’.

Google – the name started as a jokey boast 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 grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project 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 it included the letters “html” – the programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to as HoTMaiL with selective upper casing.

HP – 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.

Java – Originally called Oak by creator James Gosling, from the tree that stood outside his window, the programming team had to look for a substitute as there was another language with the same name. Java was selected from a list of suggestions. It came from the name of the coffee that the programmers drank.

If you know of any other cool name story leave a comment bellow

The incredible machine

Nick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:05:14 +0000

Do you remember the 90’s game called “The incredible machine”? Well here is a real life example of the game and in fact it is a really cool one.

Firefox addon for twitter

Nick — Sat, 02 May 2009 09:10:20 +0000

Yesterday I discovered a new firefox addon called the Social whale extension, which is very useful for twitter users. This addon does a very simple thing. When you click it, it copies to the clipboard a short url (using the twt.gs service) of the page that you are browsing at the moment.

Additionally you can right click it and select to upload a photo. In that case it will upload a picture you will choose to twitpic and copy to the clipboard the url of this photo. This addon is a time saver and if you use it with the twitterfox addon you can turn your browser to a full twitter client.

For more information and installation instructions visit the social whale extension page.

The woman equation

Nick — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 19:44:13 +0000

Besides the differential equation, a very important math type is the woman equation, which we will try to describe here :

Time for a programming tip

Nick — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 21:12:37 +0000

Will you marry me?

Nick — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:56:56 +0000

time for a video….

Nick — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:40:08 +0000

Are you sure about that skate thing?