8 May
1997
8 May
'97
9:26 p.m.
Anyhind in
today's list they had "'Why' behind the names"
The reason for certain names of companies/items.
Apple - desire to be before "Atari" in the phone book.
apple and eating it. (all this up until this
point is true) Then
what I've heard is that Jobs wanted to name the company in memory of
Turing's apple, which would explain the bite out of the apple.
I like that one. Good explanation for the bite.
Atari - to look like a Japanese company
Atari is in fact a Japanese word. I forget what it means, but it's the
equivalent of "checkmate" in the game of Go. Founder of Atari allegedly
really liked Japanese culture and Go.
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