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At this rate, in a hundred years, we're going to be naming spaceship parts silly things like 'blip-blooper' because all the cool names for things will have alre
by rosalinekarr 10y ago
At this rate, in a hundred years, we're going to be naming spaceship parts silly things like 'blip-blooper' because all the cool names for things will have already been taken by tech start ups.
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- justinpombrio 10y ago> because all the cool names for things will have already been taken by tech start ups. Fortunately, most of them fail.
- daveguy 10y agoPretty sure we won't have a functional name collision with this one within 100 years.
- giancarlostoro 10y agoOr they'll give them names from other languages that are easy to pronounce and remember. There's also making up words, that works too.
- wonkaWonka 10y agoThere's also making up words, that works too. You mean, like "blip-blooper"?
- giancarlostoro 10y agoIf that perfectly matches the product... I guess so? If Google never existed, it would of sounded silly to others I'm sure.
- wonkaWonka 10y agoWould "have" ...and Google isn't a nonsense word, btw. It's a homophone of the word "googol," to the effect of invoking the idea of a vast, large number of things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol