You may not have thought about it much, but some technology companies have pretty strange names. How did they get those names? What do the names mean? I will attempt to answer your nagging questions and give you some insight into who created the companies and why they named them what they did.Apple Computers – Founder Steve Jobs named Apple Computers after his favorite fruit. Apparently, he was three months late in filing a name for the company and told his colleagues that if they did not come up with a better name by five o’clock that day, Apple was it. And the rest is history.CISCO – This tech company’s name is not an acronym. In fact, it is a slang term for the city of San Francisco, California where the company originated.Compaq – This company’s name was formed using the words COM from...
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