Words from Web Worker

ALL OF A SUDDEN, you see that little sign everywhere - on business cards, with bylines in newspapers, in TV. Those who keep up with the information age may know that it is used for e-mail addresses; the code you write when you send an electronic letter from your computer via modem and telephone. But what is it called, and how did it originate? In Sweden it is popularly known as "cinnamon bun", "a-hose", "elephant's ear" etc. In France it is called "arobas" (meaning unknown) or "a roulé", in Holland "apestaart" (monkey tail), in Italy "chiocciola" (snail) and in Israel "shtrudel". In English it is formally called commercial at or at-sign and has been used for a long time in the sense "at a price of ...(each)": "3 barrels @ $200." Eventually it also took on the locative sense of the word "at". The @-sign is definitely not a child of the computer age - its history goes far b...

Adobe - came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock. Apache - It got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's http daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache. Apple Computers - Favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, & because he didn't get any better name for his new company.So one day he told to the staff: "If I'll not get better name by 5 o'clock today, our company's name will be anything he likes..."so at 5 o'clcok nobody come up with better name, and he was eating APPLE that time...so he keep the name of the company 'Apple Computers' CISCO – It’s not an acronym but the short for San Fran cisco . Google - the name started as a jockey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol...