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Here are a few strange stories I’ve read on some names that we all know. Some times it is very funny how a name is created.

Adobe came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.

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

Bellow are some of the funniest stuff I found while surfing the web this week. Enjoy

Here is a great example of what you can do without photoshop.

Still haven’t decided what tattoo to get on your shoulder? Check this list of funny tattoos!

Also don’t forget to admire the fastest BMW on earth….

If you are a geek like me, check this WTF list for google chrome.

Do you like pets? This is for you.

And for the end a funny picture for all our friends:

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Cool picture, don’t you think?

This is a very nice idea for a prank. Using this desktop background, you will definitely make your friends cry or have a heart attack. Just use the linked photo as a desktop background.

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Ok, we all know that the ancient greeks helped our civilization, but did you know that they also invented internet cafes?

Funny huh?

That video is a great inspiration for a ghost prank. Check it out :

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Ok, I am not a football fun but this is really cool….

Who told you tennis is not an extreme sport?

Today I’ve stumbled upon a very cool gadget for iGoogle, that gives you the ability to customize your google home page. The gadget is called Custom iGoogle Skin. There are many skins to choose from and you can even create your own.

Bellow is a screenshot from my new iGoogle (click for a larger image):