Know How These 10 Brands Got Their Famed Names

By siliconindia  |  Monday, 30 November -1, 05:30:00 AM IST

Yahoo

Once called as ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web’ was renamed as ‘Yahoo,’ a backronym to ‘Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.’ But Jerry and David prefer to say it as the word taken from Gulliver’s Travels meaning: “rude, unsophisticated, uncouth.”

 

Oracle

Database started as a code for a project that cofounders Larry Ellison and Bob Oats worked on in CIA. Oracle also represents a person in Greek Mythology who gives answers to all the doubts asked by priests.

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