AOL
Hearing AOL would have us listen to an imaginary ring and the words, “You’ve got mail!” would promptly pop into our brain. The web portal was essential during the ’90s, and the company’s brand name had been tweaked and perfected as time passed. AOL’s original name was Quantum Computer Services, but people thought it contained too many words. In 1991, they renamed the company to America Online, which had slightly fewer words. By 2006, the company finally learned the beauty of brevity of the nickname they had been given and officially changed to AOL.
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Apple
Steve Jobs was one of the internationally known entrepreneurs and inventors but was a huge Beatles fan like many of us. It was why people thought that Apple was derived from the Beatles’ record label, Apple Records. However, it was not the case, and the story began when he was picking apples at an orchard. The idea of calling the company as Apple came to mind, and he called his co-founder Steve Wozniak to pitch his idea. Steve almost rejected the suggestion because the co-founder thought that it sounded like the Beatles record label.
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