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The traditional way of naming was to base in on the product function or feature. For example, MS Office is literally an office suite composing of a spreadsheet,
by noble_pleb 6y ago
The traditional way of naming was to base in on the product function or feature. For example, MS Office is literally an office suite composing of a spreadsheet, word processor, etc. Windows is another example, "floating bordered boxes" were quite common then but Microsoft gave them a name based on their functionality.
But the modern hipster way is to name it something cool and different! Android, for example, is quite futuristic and refers to a robotic machine, it has nothing to do with a smart-phone OS, does it? Same is the case with Ubuntu, Hadoop, MySQL, Python, Chromium, Electrum, etc. You can even name it on a Greek God or something these days!
- vulcan01 6y agoHmm, you're right. I wonder how people come up with the "modern hipster" names though :) Do they just name it after whatever sounds cool? Funny you mention a Greek God, when my username is a Roman one :)
- noble_pleb 6y ago"Modern hipster" is whatever goes against the conservative approach, their thought process is based on the premise that whatever happened in the past was bad (and there were true horrors in the past too). So yeah, what goes against the conservative approach is really cool! For example, naming each iteration of your product based on a funny animal like Focal Fossa (Ubuntu), or a candy like Kitkat (Android). The conservative approach is to be professional and let them be just versions like 1,2,3 or code names like Longhorn or Aurora as Microsoft did but for internal purposes only.