Many people don’t know the origins of the names of major Internet technology companies. Today, I will tell you about them.
Alibaba
When Jack Ma was dining in a restaurant in the United States, he had a sudden idea and asked the waiter in the restaurant if he knew the name Alibaba. The waiter replied that he knew, and also told Ma Yun that Alibaba's spell to open the treasure is "Open Sesame". After that, Ma Yun repeatedly asked others around the world. After this test, Ma Yun found that the story of Alibaba was known to people all over the world, and the pronunciation was almost the same regardless of language. ?From my grandmother to my son, they all read Alibaba. ?Just like that, the final word was finalized, and Jack Ma determined "Alibaba" as the name of the company.
Jack Ma said: I didn’t name myself Alibaba, but for the world. I am doing Taobao, and one day I will go global. From the beginning, our goal was not just to make money, but to create a global and excellent company that can last 102 years. However, the "Alibaba" domain name has been bought by a Canadian. Ma Yun was sure that this domain name would be spread all over the world in the future. He spent US$10,000 of the start-up capital of 500,000 yuan at the time to buy back Alibaba's domain name from the Canadian.
Baidu Baidu? The word "Baidu?" comes from the poem "The Sapphire Case? Yuanxi" written by the Song Dynasty poet Xin Qiji: "The crowd has searched for her thousands of times, but that person is in the dim light." Robin Li said: I have loved Tang poetry and Song lyrics since I was a child, and I have a strong identification with traditional culture. The idea at that time was that the name of the website should have a Chinese meaning and be understandable. There must also be a simple pinyin that can express the meaning of the search, but it cannot be directly called what the search is, and it must have a cultural background. After thinking about it, Xin Qiji's words suddenly came to mind, and he made the decision immediately. Because the word "Baidu" covers everything we want to express.
Tencent
Ma Huateng named the company Tencent, which is full of profound meaning. On the one hand, Ma Huateng's name has the word "Teng" in it, and the company is closely related to him; on the other hand, "Teng" also means taking off and developing. The suffix is ??"Xun", mostly because of the influence of his old club Runxun on Ma Huateng. As for the English name Tencent, it is more based on the famous communications company Lucent. Later, Tencent was listed in Hong Kong. Tencent's English name was called "ten cent" by Hong Kong people. At that time, Tencent was at most an SP (SMS Content Provider) company, and Tencent charged 10 cents for text messages sent by users. , exactly ten cents, and the name is very appropriate and vivid.
Apple
The more official statement is that Jobs was ambitious and determined to build the company into a god-level powerhouse, so the logo he originally designed was Newton holding an apple. Because the legend that Newton was knocked out of the law of gravity by an apple has become a household name. Later, I thought it was too complicated, so I deleted Newton and left only Apple. Another theory is that because Steve Jobs liked Apple, he chose an apple for the logo. However, after designing it, he realized that it looked like a butt from a distance, and he was afraid that he would be laughed at, so he took a bite of the apple so that everyone would know it. An apple and never a butt.
The word Google googol? refers to 10 raised to the 100th power, written as the number 1 followed by 100 zeros, and can be used to represent the massive resources available on the Internet. But it was Stanford University student Sean Anderson who came up with the name. When he searched in the Internet domain name registration database, he typed the word "google.com" and found that this domain name was just right for use.
NOKIA
Nokia refers to a beast with long black hair and sharp claws that lives in Finland. This beast mainly lives in a river in Finland. Therefore, people named the river after this monster, calling it River Nokia. In 1865, when Fredrik Idestam was preparing to start a business, he chose to set up his company on the banks of the Nokia River.
Yahoo
Jonathan Swift, the author of "Gulliver's Travels" invented the word yaho.
In the novel, it represents a guy who is so disgusting in appearance and behavior that he is hardly a human being. The reason why David Filo and Jerry Yang insisted on choosing this name is that they like the dictionary definition of Yahoo? Rude, unsophisticated, vulgar?, and feel that they are such people
Microsoft
BillGate came up with this name, which first appeared in Gates' 1975 letter to Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. It means that the company will focus on MICROcomputerSOFT-ware (microcomputer software), which makes people feel that this is a word formed by mixing "microcomputer" and "software". It was originally called Micro-Soft, but later the ?-? in the middle was removed.
There was much debate over whether Facebook was the brainchild of Mark Zuckerberg or other Harvard students a few years ago. But there is no doubt that it comes from a drawing game played hundreds of years ago. A hundred years ago there was a drawing game that involved leaving notes or drawing images in the owner's FaceBook; moreover, in the 19th and 20th centuries, collections contained thoughts written by visitors or friends. It is also common to create a guestbook with jokes or jokes. This is where the name Facebook comes from.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times (LATimes), founder Jack Dorsey said that he had taken great pains to choose a suitable name and came up with many names, hoping to express It's a feeling that's being talked about all over the world. I'd love to use the word twitch, but it doesn't conjure up the right image in people's minds. After that, I had to look for similar words in the dictionary. ?Twitter? is a kind of bird call. The founder believed that bird calls are short, frequent, and fast, which is in line with the connotation of the website, so he chose ?Twitter? as the name of the website
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