History Name of Intel, Yahoo!, Google, Apple dan Microsoft

No meaning and its own history behind the names of the big technology companies. Perhaps related to the name of its founder or certain abbreviations.

Here's the secret behind the name of Google, Microsoft, et al, who quoted from various sources.

Intel Corp
Intel was founded in Mountain View, California in 1968. Its founder is Gordon E. Moore, Robert Noyce and Arthur Rock who became the first investor.

Moore and Noyce initially wanted to name his new company as Moore Noyce, combined both of their names. But on second thought, the name was deemed not fit to be called a technology company.

As a result, during the year they are using NM Electronics, which stands for their names. Until then dawned names are abbreviated as Integrated Electronics Intel.

But at that time, Intel has a hotel named Intelco copyright. Moore and Noyce decided to purchase the right to use Intel's name on the hotel network manager. The company was referred to as Intel Corporation until now.

Google
Google was founded by duo Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Both are alumni of one of the most prestigious universities in the United States, Stanford University.

They work together to create online search engine that displays results from various sites very much. Therefore, they want to call it as a means Googol is the number one followed by one hundred zeros fruit, as a symbol of the search very much.

However, when they enrolled in the project investor, an error occurred. An investor invests in a company's Google, not Googol. Apparently he was wrong calls.

But Page and Brin felt the name Google more attractive. Be they even use that name for ever.

Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen were two men of genius who pioneered the Microsoft. Microsoft is a forerunner to the establishment in 1975.

Microsoft itself is not a name without meaning. This word stands for microcomputers and software.

Initially, Microsoft said written separately. So when it was written as Micro-soft.

However, in 1976, Allen and Gates mendafarkan name Microsoft as a single word, no longer separated.

Apple
There are various stories about where the name Apple originate. However, the most authentic seems to stem from the official biography of Steve Jobs written by Walter Isaacson.

In a book published after Jobs's death, the Apple founder told Isaacson that in former times he tried a variety of diets. Had he only eat fruits and vegetables only.

Apple's Jobs to be one of joy when dieting. He spontaneously decided to use the name Apple after returning from an Apple plantation.

The reason? Jobs chose the name Apple because it judged the fun, spirited and not intimidating.

Yahoo!
January 1994, Jerry Yang and David Filo created a website named "Jerry's guide to the world wide web". This is the forerunner to Yahoo.

March 1994, the website was renamed Yahoo. Yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995.

Yahoo is the acronym for "Yet Another Hierarchical officious Oracle". Each word has its own meaning. The term hierarchical show that Yahoo database organized into various sub-categories.

While the oracle means the source of truth and wisdom. Then officious means many office workers are expected to use the Yahoo database.

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