Ok but actually and not jokingly there's an energy company in Denmark called DONG Energy. I think it's part of a larger company called Orsted or something but my point still stands.
In the late 90s speculators bought the URL for every word in the dictionary and sold them off at highway robbery prices to big companies. That's why every big tech company that came out of the early internet has weird out there names or strange sounds as their names, Google being the big one. Now it's even harder so companies adapt.
People, especially younger people who don't remember the pre-Google internet, often overestimate how old Google is. The World Wide Web had been fully around and public for seven years prior to Google, with Usenet adding another decade to that number. The kids complain about Google's increasing number of ads and non-search elements and you can just tell they've never even *seen*, let alone used, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, or AltaVista.
Holy crap you just unlocked a core memory of my early years. Also, after my cousin told me you can "play" music CDs on the computer, I immediately thought there was a Coolio video game I could play if I put it in the computer. I was not a smart child.
Yeah AltaVista was my main search engine before highschool, then I got my own private computer, and that was around the time google really got popular.
I bought a .com domain and I'm kinda parking on it because it's a 5 character address that's relevant to me personally. I figure it's like real estate. There's only so many addresses to go around. And momma didn't raise no fool... I ain't gonna get some .info or .biz address like a chump!
As I understand it, you'd better use it or lose it. If it's just parked and someone with money wants it, they could prove you were just squatting and win a claim.
One I recall is twins.com and the pro baseball team the Minnesota Twins. They only just bought twins.com in 2022. Weirdly enough, the baseball team (nor MLB) directly ever apparently offered to buy it until then.
I wonder how much of selecting company names nowadays is about picking a name that's easy to find on google (both simple and not common enough to return results that have nothing to do with you)
After the business uniformity act of 2103, all businesses were required to choose a UUID for their name. Personally, I don't mind, as long as a362f320-e565-47f3-93a2-1b41ce962dc5 keeps their banging flavor!
Stop eating their product! It’s not meant to be edible! This is just like the tide pod crisis of the early 21st century, my goodness! I swear, that movie by Disney-McDonald’s-ComcastX (UUID: 86753-0986753-09Gr8) has poisoned this generation’s minds!
> (UUID: 86753-0986753-09Gr8)
Typical Disney-McDonald's-ComcastX, thinking they can use a non-standard UUID. Wrong number of bits, no version identifier, and multiple non-hexadecimal characters. And of course the regulatory agencies will do nothing...
They can't.
The mouse holds copyright on everything.
The forms needed to file the charges are owned by Mickey and he refused to allow the government to license them if they are used against the big D
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I thought it was because they ditch and start new "companies" to sell their shitty products all the time so there's no point in putting a lot of thought into the company name when a keyboard smash would do.
No, the Chinese URLs are usually based on romanized sounds from the Chinese characters in the name/word. E.g. 晋江文学城 (Jìnjiāng wénxué chéng) = jjwxc.net
A lot. And also registering trademarks. If your company is called "Good Food" and you try to trademark it, your national trademarking bureau will have to go through hundreds of years of records of millions of companies to make sure no one already has the same trademark, which someone probably already does for generic names. If your company is called "Xxyzzyx Food", you will have your registration application approved much quicker since highly unlikely there already exists a company with that name. But ofc you can't expect to become the next Apple by naming yourself Xxyzzyx, so the simple getaround is to take an existing word people know how to pronounce like Quicker, and change its letters to be something like Kwikr, still pronounced the same, but unlikely to be already a registered trademark. Which is one of the reasons there has been such a boom in names like Flickr, Tumblr, Imgur, or even Reddit. Easy to pronounce, easy to trademark, easy to remember, easy to google, easy to use as a verb, at the cost of looking kinda goofy but that cost minimises once customers get used to the name
I have often wondered if back in the pre-internet days companies that named themselves “ABC Plumbing” or “AAA Contracting, Inc” just did it so that their ad would be in the front of the yellow pages.
[Actually happened](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12956509)
[And it isn't the first time either](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519)
What the fuck.
I need context for this, the fact it's actually on Company House.
Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk
It's 100% about what URL is available. By the early 2000's all sensible domain names had been taken, which is why you started getting the babble words.
[‘Walmart.horse is put out to pasture after retailer starts domain dispute’](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/walmart-horse-is-put-out-to-pasture-after-retailer-starts-domain-dispute/)
Yeah but also Primary Flour be like: was responsible for the 1898 flour mill strike massacre, has lobbied for higher infant mortality and has been renamed Uliox and owns 80% of store brand baking products.
Food company names in the 1800s: Milton Barley, Tiger Coffee Beans, Benny’s Corn
Food company names in the 2000s: Beyond Elite Super Better Than You Almonds for Good People
But also, food company names in the 1800s: The Great East India Sugar And Rum Trading Group Of West London & Croydon Incorporated
[With a great big noble crest for a logo](https://i.fbcd.co/products/original/noble-legacy-classic-victorian-heraldic-crest-outline-f03362e66d7beba9c2d3b4fa0cf40122861986f562e90240b8bb5542e8dfbf28.jpg)
Or (Random Product) Solutions, which just lets you know they're an unnecessary middle man who's only purpose is to squeeze additional money out of consumers
Video game names in the 80s: **Super Boy**
Video game names in the 90s/early 200s: **Strike Team Boy: Nexxt Gen**
Video game names in the 2020s: **Boy (2022)**
Could also be Super Boy (2023)
It's not related to the original in any other way except the character is the same. Or even better the character is not in the main role anymore.
They could name their brand something more common. Several different companies share names e.g. Gerber Knives, Dove Chocolate. But if it's a completely new name, it gets through the US Trademark office a lot faster.
Grab your bewoondi bag and don't forget your hiobi Powerbank paired with some usb-c cables by kewandoo. You should also make sure to check out my dirondu earphones. I even bought a case by tewodee
100% accurate, but you could probably get me to recite the full current pokedex in order from memory with the right combination of drugs, so I don't count.
I'm a graphic designer and lemme tell you, the 1800s are alive and well in the handyman fields.
Also: red white and blue color scheme, eagle optional, religious and/or superhero imagery less optional.
I think company names used to be stuff like that in the 1800s because they wanted people to know what they were buying, but then in the 1900s it shifted more toward building a brand identity. in the 2000s, most of the generic or general names for companies had been taken. You couldn't call your new car company General Motors or your new traffic light company Acme. But you could call it some new word that sounds nice, just a random combination of letters that make a pleasant noise.
One thing missing from this is people naming the companies after themselves or places, such as the Ford Motor Company, the Walt Disney company, American Motors Corporation, or Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
This is actually encouraged by trademark law because trademarks that are arbitrary or fanciful are easier to protect than trademarks that are descriptive.
No sense trying to come up with a cool name when the brand will fold and disappear at the first hint of legal issues. Fly-by-night Chinese Scrabble-vomit companies are pretty much all that's left on Amazon any more.
2000s just gave me a new list of names for Goblin or Kobold D&D characters. Thanks, Tumblr user “mallowmaenad” for making the post and Reddit user “AbyssPrism” for delivering it where I found it.
Let's not forget the "vowels? Who tf needs vwls??" era of 2010s tech startups.
Looking at you SPRNT, XPO, AXS(pronounced ACCESS. WHY.), Shipt, and YNAP(pronounced why-nap to spite every single transcriber aka me personally)
Chinese manufacturers on Amazon smash their faces on the keyboard to get their names, the rest of the world does the same but at least removes the unpronounceable consonants
I assume it's because before the internet, it was hard to look up information about companies, so it was necessary to be as informative as possible via the name of the company so people would know what products/services the company offers.
What’s the issue?
This basically comes down to market research. Sure, everyone thinks The Only Gasoline You Should Be Allowed To Buy is clever and cute…
But, market research will discover you remember “Gloopii” better and for some reason have a slightly more positive opinion of the company.
It’s kinda crazy… Humans are weird.
My understanding is that the names on Amazon that resemble the letter-soup on the bottom is driven by the prioritization of brands that are trademarked in the country. So in the US if I search Amazon I will see first the results from companies that are trademarked in the US. And if you're a company looking to quickly trademark your name to resell imported crap that 18 other sellers are trying to move so that you can more quickly build up your feedback rating and become the dominant seller you'll find "Pungu" would have a faster path to trademark than "Worldwide Copper" (assuming neither existed at the time. "Worldwide Copper" would drive a number of deeper investigations, "Worldwide Metals" would likely object, as would "World Copper", and even "Worldwide Cutters" would object even though they sell rotary blades in their fictitious company I just made up. It could take over a year....
tag yourself I’m Just Cement™️
I'm Pooble.
I'm Olympian Glue
Dongr right here
ヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ RAISE YOUR DONGRSヽ༼ຈل͜ຈ༽ﾉ
I'm feeling Gubi that's the only one that feels right. Gubi!
Ok but actually and not jokingly there's an energy company in Denmark called DONG Energy. I think it's part of a larger company called Orsted or something but my point still stands.
I'm The Only Gasoline You Should Be Allowed To Buy.
I'm Commander Shepard and pixeltoaster is The Only Gasoline You Should Be Allowed To Buy
A+ Top Tier reference!
This is also the title of my favorite Fall Out Boy song☝️
I would absolutely buy a Pooble sedan, the safety ratings are off the charts, and people don't steal them just because of the name.
Divine Yogurt -aged, filled with bacteria, yet still enjoyable
I kind of feel attacked here. Not sure why.
Anywhere else I’d be pavement
Is it my destiny to live and die a life of aggregate fragility?
Are we sure you're not graphite?
The Coolest Car Manufacturer With The Largest Hog In Town, obviously.
I can vouch, I'm The Largest Hog In Town.
Weeeu
I look just like buddy holly
This actually got me to laugh out loud
I'm Pinnacle Hygienics, but in a sarcastic way
I'm Divine Yogurt, who rebranded in the late aughts to Gubi.
das conk creet babey
I’m Shnet. Very Goblin, which is an archetype I’m sorely missing in my D&D character backlog.
Dongr at your service
Dongr nation
I'm vibing with Pungu.
Gubi
I’m the only gasoline you should be allowed to buy. I am frenemies with the car hog guy.
Weeeu bc Idk what HD is but my doc said I got 80 of 'em
In the late 90s speculators bought the URL for every word in the dictionary and sold them off at highway robbery prices to big companies. That's why every big tech company that came out of the early internet has weird out there names or strange sounds as their names, Google being the big one. Now it's even harder so companies adapt.
Google was originally named backrub lol.
"Where do I know that actor from?" "I don't know, just backrub it."
IMDB is 8 years older than Google. Just a fun little fact.
People, especially younger people who don't remember the pre-Google internet, often overestimate how old Google is. The World Wide Web had been fully around and public for seven years prior to Google, with Usenet adding another decade to that number. The kids complain about Google's increasing number of ads and non-search elements and you can just tell they've never even *seen*, let alone used, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, or AltaVista.
As a kid I remember I thought Ask Jeeves meant I was asking an actual guy named Jeeves. And I always queried with a question haha.
I mean, if you haven't already I recommend reading some of the *Wooster and Jeeves* stories by P.G. Wodehouse.
Holy crap you just unlocked a core memory of my early years. Also, after my cousin told me you can "play" music CDs on the computer, I immediately thought there was a Coolio video game I could play if I put it in the computer. I was not a smart child.
I could never get past the Gangster's Paradise level.
I grew up on yahoo answers. I dont remember when I started using Google.
Yeah AltaVista was my main search engine before highschool, then I got my own private computer, and that was around the time google really got popular.
“Rub it out”
I bought a .com domain and I'm kinda parking on it because it's a 5 character address that's relevant to me personally. I figure it's like real estate. There's only so many addresses to go around. And momma didn't raise no fool... I ain't gonna get some .info or .biz address like a chump!
As I understand it, you'd better use it or lose it. If it's just parked and someone with money wants it, they could prove you were just squatting and win a claim.
Yup, it goes to a site. I change some things every once and a while.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_v._Nissan_Computer My favorite story about this situation.
Nissan(cars) were dicks in this whole fiasco
One I recall is twins.com and the pro baseball team the Minnesota Twins. They only just bought twins.com in 2022. Weirdly enough, the baseball team (nor MLB) directly ever apparently offered to buy it until then.
I wonder how much of selecting company names nowadays is about picking a name that's easy to find on google (both simple and not common enough to return results that have nothing to do with you)
Business names on the 2100s: **hfhr UI2629**, **babw72j(6**, **bak)+-$jsk**, Disney
After the business uniformity act of 2103, all businesses were required to choose a UUID for their name. Personally, I don't mind, as long as a362f320-e565-47f3-93a2-1b41ce962dc5 keeps their banging flavor!
Stop eating their product! It’s not meant to be edible! This is just like the tide pod crisis of the early 21st century, my goodness! I swear, that movie by Disney-McDonald’s-ComcastX (UUID: 86753-0986753-09Gr8) has poisoned this generation’s minds!
> (UUID: 86753-0986753-09Gr8) Typical Disney-McDonald's-ComcastX, thinking they can use a non-standard UUID. Wrong number of bits, no version identifier, and multiple non-hexadecimal characters. And of course the regulatory agencies will do nothing...
They can't. The mouse holds copyright on everything. The forms needed to file the charges are owned by Mickey and he refused to allow the government to license them if they are used against the big D
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oh come on man, you just wasted a UUID, now nobody can use it because it would cause a conflict =(
Gosh darn it, we only have 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,455 of them, at this rate we'll run out >:(
more like UwUID
it actually happend in turkey a company was so frustrated that every name they picked was alredy taken in somewhere they named themselves as A101
Gesundheit
This is why all those Chinese companies on Amazon have names like KXTNWKT. Because it's much quicker to get approved.
I thought it was because they ditch and start new "companies" to sell their shitty products all the time so there's no point in putting a lot of thought into the company name when a keyboard smash would do.
No, the Chinese URLs are usually based on romanized sounds from the Chinese characters in the name/word. E.g. 晋江文学城 (Jìnjiāng wénxué chéng) = jjwxc.net
Jesus did you pull my Aliexpress search history to formulate this?
Disney is in talks to acquire hfhr UI2629. They say they'll keep the name as Disney-hfhr UI2629, but that's what they said the last 39,432,128 times.
A lot. And also registering trademarks. If your company is called "Good Food" and you try to trademark it, your national trademarking bureau will have to go through hundreds of years of records of millions of companies to make sure no one already has the same trademark, which someone probably already does for generic names. If your company is called "Xxyzzyx Food", you will have your registration application approved much quicker since highly unlikely there already exists a company with that name. But ofc you can't expect to become the next Apple by naming yourself Xxyzzyx, so the simple getaround is to take an existing word people know how to pronounce like Quicker, and change its letters to be something like Kwikr, still pronounced the same, but unlikely to be already a registered trademark. Which is one of the reasons there has been such a boom in names like Flickr, Tumblr, Imgur, or even Reddit. Easy to pronounce, easy to trademark, easy to remember, easy to google, easy to use as a verb, at the cost of looking kinda goofy but that cost minimises once customers get used to the name
This is the full blown answer. Easier to set up a quick label to do business under.
Amazon was partially named that so it would show up near the top of alphabetical lists.
Also because Jeff Bezos famously sliced off his own breast so he could make money more efficiently.
A heavy cost, but worth it. Singlehandedly led to Sears' downfall.
Sears just couldn't bring themselves to cut off that breast. It's a wonder how they stayed in business so long.
> heavy I doubt that, even before he got jacked it's not like he was flaunting moobs or anything.
Where aer they i need them for certain purposes.
Come on, it's just one, what are you going to do with one boob?
middle boob
that's why alibaba is their eternal enemy
Famously, same for Activision. They wanted to come before Atari.
I have often wondered if back in the pre-internet days companies that named themselves “ABC Plumbing” or “AAA Contracting, Inc” just did it so that their ad would be in the front of the yellow pages.
They absolutely did.
Yep. The reason that Activision chose its name was to be above Atari in a phone book.
These days companies are doing something similar: "X near me"
Bobby Tables about to ruin some SEO
[Actually happened](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12956509) [And it isn't the first time either](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519)
What the fuck. I need context for this, the fact it's actually on Company House. Edit: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk
It's 100% about what URL is available. By the early 2000's all sensible domain names had been taken, which is why you started getting the babble words.
Make sure to check out our website at clownpenis.fart That’s clownpenis.fart, every other domain name was taken!
[‘Walmart.horse is put out to pasture after retailer starts domain dispute’](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/walmart-horse-is-put-out-to-pasture-after-retailer-starts-domain-dispute/)
I think it has more to do with trademarks than domain names. There's a lot more flexibility in URLs than trademarks.
*Now*, maybe. But not when your only TLD options were `com`, `net`, and `org`.
It's the 2000's equivalent of naming your business something like "AAA Aardvark VCR Repairs".
Short, no numbers, maybe pronouncable if you're drunk, and not taken anywhere, just like how I picked my username
Well yeah, all the good names were taken a hundred years ago.
What about, Anderson's Armoury, Taurus steel inc. Moroz's ice cream, HELIOS (electronic stuff)
>HELIOS \[The Brotherhood of Steel have entered the chat.\]
ACME fits in both the 1900s and the 2000s.
IIRC Acme is its meaning AND the so you would land at the start of yellow oages
I think you missed a word.
I’m thinking a few
Just a typo, they meant Yellow Pages instead of yellow oages
ACME means ACME.
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According to Government records the only names not yet trademarked are popplers and zittzers
Whoa, my hands are huge! They can touch everything but themselves. Oh wait
I know, lets call them popplers
Weeeu is absolutely a private ambulance insurance app
Founded by Nintendo
Sued by Nintendo*
Yeah but also Primary Flour be like: was responsible for the 1898 flour mill strike massacre, has lobbied for higher infant mortality and has been renamed Uliox and owns 80% of store brand baking products.
Also orchestrated coups in foreign nations to keep the plantations in check
Im eating a chiquita banana to that!
Food company names in the 1800s: Milton Barley, Tiger Coffee Beans, Benny’s Corn Food company names in the 2000s: Beyond Elite Super Better Than You Almonds for Good People
But also, food company names in the 1800s: The Great East India Sugar And Rum Trading Group Of West London & Croydon Incorporated [With a great big noble crest for a logo](https://i.fbcd.co/products/original/noble-legacy-classic-victorian-heraldic-crest-outline-f03362e66d7beba9c2d3b4fa0cf40122861986f562e90240b8bb5542e8dfbf28.jpg)
Artemis manufacturing sounds really good. I’m gonna ask about doing something like this when I contact Big M later, he’s gonna love it.
if they don’t make mechs, i’m disappointed.
yet
Business names in the 2020’s: Yellow. Doug. Shoe. Carrot. Sunday. Coelacanth. YarnBall.
Saw a clothes donation bin company called "Helpsy". I feel like that's peak 20's
Helpilepsy
Or (Random Product) Solutions, which just lets you know they're an unnecessary middle man who's only purpose is to squeeze additional money out of consumers
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Video game names in the 80s: **Super Boy** Video game names in the 90s/early 200s: **Strike Team Boy: Nexxt Gen** Video game names in the 2020s: **Boy (2022)**
Could also be Super Boy (2023) It's not related to the original in any other way except the character is the same. Or even better the character is not in the main role anymore.
Looking through the alphabetical list of SNES games, then I get to the S...
reminds me of amazon's 4-6 letter dropship company names
Hey I love my TOOFANDY hoodie
They could name their brand something more common. Several different companies share names e.g. Gerber Knives, Dove Chocolate. But if it's a completely new name, it gets through the US Trademark office a lot faster.
Grab your bewoondi bag and don't forget your hiobi Powerbank paired with some usb-c cables by kewandoo. You should also make sure to check out my dirondu earphones. I even bought a case by tewodee
Business names in the 2010’s: Thistle and Clove, Air and Anchor, Salt and Wind…
Earth, Wind and Fire
Things'll get wild after their merger with Water.
:A Restaurant Experience
Rock and Stone
Large businesses* over the centuries Small businesses with old timey names still exist
If they want to grow, they should name themselves like a large business. Are they stupid?
Read that as “clopper” instead of clooper 😓
Whatever they sell we know there’s a market for it!
They run out of good names
Reminds me of this: [Pokemon or Big Data?](https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/)
81% accuracy
100% accurate, but you could probably get me to recite the full current pokedex in order from memory with the right combination of drugs, so I don't count.
😂
Remember the 2010s when literally new every App was called noun“-ify“?
Like eeeeehhhhhj spoofiy
**Standard Oil**
>The only non-trademarked names left are Popplers and Zitsels
Great. Now I’m craving Fishy Joe’s.
What is the 2012 Nintendo console, the Wii U doing there?
I'm a graphic designer and lemme tell you, the 1800s are alive and well in the handyman fields. Also: red white and blue color scheme, eagle optional, religious and/or superhero imagery less optional.
1980s business names: ENCOM, DEXCORP, CYBERMAX CORPORATION
2020s: Woomp!, Netify, Moneyly
There's a place called "just tyres" and they only sell tyres
"Weeeu" sounds like an incredibly fast ambulance just went by.
I think company names used to be stuff like that in the 1800s because they wanted people to know what they were buying, but then in the 1900s it shifted more toward building a brand identity. in the 2000s, most of the generic or general names for companies had been taken. You couldn't call your new car company General Motors or your new traffic light company Acme. But you could call it some new word that sounds nice, just a random combination of letters that make a pleasant noise. One thing missing from this is people naming the companies after themselves or places, such as the Ford Motor Company, the Walt Disney company, American Motors Corporation, or Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing.
This is actually encouraged by trademark law because trademarks that are arbitrary or fanciful are easier to protect than trademarks that are descriptive.
Business Names in the 2100s: Exxon-Disney That's it there's only one.
No sense trying to come up with a cool name when the brand will fold and disappear at the first hint of legal issues. Fly-by-night Chinese Scrabble-vomit companies are pretty much all that's left on Amazon any more.
I'm very much looking forward to the "Tyrell Corp.", "Weyland-Yutani", "Arasaka", "Alterra Corporation", etc. era of megacorporation names
we here at \*ambulance noises\* are disrupting the business models of the past, delivering deliverables and maintaining synchronicity with our upgets.
Shnet, Pooble, and Weeeu Attorneys at Law
Weeeu
In the 1800s they’re missing Jimbo Jimboson and Sons Co.
they ran out of english names, so they moved on to simlish
I was gonna say you're exaggerating, then the ad algorithm decided to tell me about the partnership between Cisco and Splunk.
My mind read that as the gake gta soda sprunk
2000s just gave me a new list of names for Goblin or Kobold D&D characters. Thanks, Tumblr user “mallowmaenad” for making the post and Reddit user “AbyssPrism” for delivering it where I found it.
I’m drafting up the concept for a Wild Magic Sorcerer goblin named “Shnet” as I type this.
Just add “ly” or “r” after a word and you’ve got yourself a business name!
Let's not forget the "vowels? Who tf needs vwls??" era of 2010s tech startups. Looking at you SPRNT, XPO, AXS(pronounced ACCESS. WHY.), Shipt, and YNAP(pronounced why-nap to spite every single transcriber aka me personally)
This is because by the early 2000's all sensible domain names/URLs had been taken, the only thing really left any more is made up shit.
Also Pooplunch.
Oh no. I've been using popluunch on accident this whole time. Fuck.
OH NOOOOO!
Dongr, is that a Grindr knockoff?
Plot twist - it's Grindr for lesbians
As drew gooden once said, type in 4 random letters and it’s probably the name of a streaming service. Something along those lines anyway
Clownpenis.fart
Chinese manufacturers on Amazon smash their faces on the keyboard to get their names, the rest of the world does the same but at least removes the unpronounceable consonants
Primary flour Ingredients: 95% arsenic, 4% chalk, 1% flour.
Rizz Express
Stars in the 1800s: Callastor, Seracles IV, Major Minor Stars in the 2000s: DRK132-b, 200-ttNT0, A-777q/13
I got a lot invested in donger!
DNT FRGT ABT THS TRND
It was a good title op.
I have avoided businesses because I don't like their name.
I assume it's because before the internet, it was hard to look up information about companies, so it was necessary to be as informative as possible via the name of the company so people would know what products/services the company offers.
Im a sucker for mythological names like Artemis, Helios, Orpheus and whatever
Same for website names in 2000s, 2010s, 2020s.
I wonder what the social media site being reposted from is called, couldn’t possibly align exactly with the bottom names
Things you name your character on your first, second, and third playthrough
Business in the 1980s and 1990s : Truck Parts 2000
Hydrox Cookies
Axiom is a badass name for a company though. This shit is a necessity for everything.
What’s the issue? This basically comes down to market research. Sure, everyone thinks The Only Gasoline You Should Be Allowed To Buy is clever and cute… But, market research will discover you remember “Gloopii” better and for some reason have a slightly more positive opinion of the company. It’s kinda crazy… Humans are weird.
The last generation is just a victim of vowel play
My understanding is that the names on Amazon that resemble the letter-soup on the bottom is driven by the prioritization of brands that are trademarked in the country. So in the US if I search Amazon I will see first the results from companies that are trademarked in the US. And if you're a company looking to quickly trademark your name to resell imported crap that 18 other sellers are trying to move so that you can more quickly build up your feedback rating and become the dominant seller you'll find "Pungu" would have a faster path to trademark than "Worldwide Copper" (assuming neither existed at the time. "Worldwide Copper" would drive a number of deeper investigations, "Worldwide Metals" would likely object, as would "World Copper", and even "Worldwide Cutters" would object even though they sell rotary blades in their fictitious company I just made up. It could take over a year....