deliberately-different.blogspot.com— Lists how many of the corporations got their names. Read on, its good fun. For example: Xerox- The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product trying to say `dry'.
Feb 22, 2006View in Crawl 4
My Favorite ..NBI Mr. Thomas S. Kavanagh, a Storage Technology cofounder, started NBI (Nothing But Initials) in Boulder, Colorado to sell office automation products. They still have a Ethernet Vendor Code right after ....SUN 080022... NBI (Nothing But Initials) 080023
majordangerFeb 23, 2006
My Favorite ..NBI Mr. Thomas S. Kavanagh, a Storage Technology cofounder, started NBI (Nothing But Initials) in Boulder, Colorado to sell office automation products. They still have a Ethernet Vendor Code right after ....SUN 080022... NBI (Nothing But Initials) 080023
evilklownFeb 23, 2006
"No Digg. Proper link: <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologies">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_name_etymologies</a> posted by squirt (0) at 05:05 PM 2/22/06"Good spot, squirt!How lame can you get, copy a bunch of crap from wikipedia and post it off as your own work to get dugg.
tecloFeb 23, 2006
Do'h how did I miss the wiki link being mentioned above me?? :( My bad...
hoohoonickFeb 24, 2006
+digg for old news. What?