Origin of Web Company Names

Where did the names of the web companies come from?

Some were jokes, others have a more serious but unexpected origin...

• Adobe
  This is the name of the river (Adobe Creek) near Los Altos in California, flowing near the house of one of the founders.
• Amazon
  The company was first called Kadabra, but it was pronounced corpse (corpse) several times, so it was renamed according to the name of the widest river in the World.
• Apple
  Apple (apple) was Steve Jobs' favorite fruit, and he only ate it at certain times. According to legend, he would threaten to name Apple Computer if no one suggested a better name before 5 p.m.
  But it was also the name of The Beattles record company and it was just dissolved, thereby freeing up the use of the name.
• Cisco
  It's a shortcut from San Francisco, where the company is based in Silicon Valley.
• Commodore
  Jack Tramiel, who worked in the Army, wanted to name his company (which was then making cars) the General. But the name was too worn out (General Motors, General Electric, etc.), and the Admiral had already been taken, it was also called Commodore, which is lower than the admiral .
• Coral
  Laboratory abbreviation COwpland REsearch.
• eBay
  We first named AuctionWeb, which was associated with Echo Bay Technology Group, we wanted to take the EchoBay domain, but it was already registered, so a shorter name was chosen.
• GoDaddy
  One of the leading American registrars, founded in 1997, was called Jomax Technologies. Searching for a more "friendly" name, they found that "Big Daddy," referring to Big Brother, would be original, but the estate was already occupied. GoDaddy (come on Dad) seemed easy for them to remember and they didn't find anything better.
• Google
  The founders chose the name Googol, which is a very large number, followed by 1 followed by 100 zeros. But in English, the pronunciation is the same as Google, which in itself means nothing. But when they wanted to know if the domain was free, they mistakenly typed Google instead of Googol. The estate was vacant and the word appealed to those founders who retained it .
  Whereas googol.com has already been registered since 1995.
  
• Hotmail
  If you do not find a name that will not be used before, the founder of the email purchased by Microsoft chose HoTMaiL to mark the use of HTML.
• IBM
  Founder Tom Watson left the National Cash Register wanting to top them, he replaced each word with a more general one: National -> International, Cash (money) -> Business (business), Register (cash) -> Machines
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• Intel Corporation
  The founders were called Moore and Noyce, but Moore-Noyce was already in use. In addition, the name Moore Noice Electronics sounded like "noise" (background noise), which was inconvenient. They then chose the INTectronics label
• Lotus
  Founder Mitch Kapor was a teacher of transcendental meditation, this speaks of the lotus position.
• Lycos
  It comes from Lycosidae, a class of sailboats, an allusion to the web .
• Microsoft
  First called Micro-Soft, short for MICROcomputer SOFTware, then simplified at Microsoft.
• Mozilla
  The title is a showdown between Mosaic, the first graphics browser, and Godzilla. It was the codename of the Netscape browser, a name that was coined at the leaders' meeting .
• Short stories
  The founder's spouse chose the name because she believed he was signing "new" in French. She thought about New, female again, and also in the name of relevant information.
• Oracle
  That was the name of the CIA project for a system capable of providing answers to all the questions that would be asked. It spawned the IBM SQL language. This project was abandoned, but Larry Ellison and Bob Oates, who worked on it, decided to sue it on their own behalf based on RDBMS using SQL.
• Red Hat
  The founder wore a red cap with white stripes and was often referred to as "the one with the red cap" when asked who could solve the problem. When he lost his hat, he posted an ad in the Linux manual who would find it. The name was passed to this version of Linux.
• Yahoo!
  It comes from Jonathan Swift's book Gulliver's Travels. This is a vaguely human, rather repulsive person, and so the founders Jerry Yang and David Philo considered themselves
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Other IT players

• Asus
  This corresponds to the end of "pegasus." Pegasus is a mythical creature, a flying horse that inspires creative impulse. The shortcut was chosen for the initial "A."
• Compac
  The first computers were compact and portable, hence the name.
• Epson
  Comes from Son of Electronic Printer (electronic printer wires).
• Nokia
  The company was founded in the Finnish city of Nokia, whose name it adopted.
• Sleepyhead
  It comes from the Latin Sonus.

Documents

• Origin of the Apple logo.
• Origin of programming language names.