Have you ever wonder of how those big companies come out with the idea of how to name their companies? Like me, probably you might think some of the big names are just a common word that we speak everyday like Yahoo!, or the company just simply comes up with such a name.

Well, this page gives you a better idea of knowing how the big names are created. I am not too sure about the validity of the creation of the names, but I felt it is something really interesting to share with you all. Of course, if you know the original idea of naming those names listed, feel free to tell us in the comment area.

I will just list down some of the famous ones :-

• Yahoo!
  It’s actually an acronym for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle”. See the name history. Before this, I thought it is just a simple word “Yahoo”.
• Sun Microsystems
  Now only I know it means the acronym for Stanford University Network.
• Microsoft
  Originally called Micro-Soft, which is the suppose to be a short form of MICROcomputer SOFTware. The ‘-’ was then removed.
• Intel
  I thought it means Intelligence, but in fact it is the acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.
• Hotmail
  Named as such was not because the email is hot, but because Hotmail includes the letters “html”, which is the most widely used programming language on the Internet. Initially, HoTMaiL was the way how it is written.
• Cisco
  Actually it’s the abbreviation of San Francisco, and the company logo is the image of Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Before knowing the real reason, I thought the logo is some form of signal wave.
• Apple Computers
  Apple is the favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. LoL … This is classic !