Original Names of Famous Companies
These well-known brand-names started out differently …
• Twitter – Its working name was ‘Status’, and then ‘Twitch’.
• Skype – Derived from ‘sky peer-to-peer’; shortened to ‘Skyper’ but the URL was already taken.
• Lego – From the Danish phrase ‘leg godt’, which means ‘play well’.
• Amazon – Originally named ‘Cadabra’, as in ‘abracadabra’.
• 7-Eleven – Founded in 1927 and originally called ‘Tote’m Stores’.
• Google – Originally called ‘BackRub’, when founded in 1996.
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