07/30/2008: "Coming back?"

Did you know that blog is short for web log.

Alta Vista translator - "Bablefish" is named after an alien translating fish that you stick in your ear and it's excretion translates other languages - or something like that.

Bluetooth is named after a Denmark (where bluetooth was invented) King Harald Bluetooth (Bluetooth is an anglicized version of Harald Blaatand.) of Denmark and Norway. He unified the two countries like the bluetooth technology is unifying other technologies.

Google is named after a googol, which is a 1 followed by 100 zeros.

Cisco got it's name from the twn it started in - San Francisco.

Yahoo takes its name from "Gulliver's Travels", which the people from one of the lands that Gulliver travels to wore no clothes which was disturbing to Gulliver (the novel was written in the Victorian age where it was custom to cover every part of exposed skin) where called Yahoos. But Gulliver's restaurant serves great prime rib and creamed corn.