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yep, exactly. When Facebook changed their name to Meta, people were looking for a good acronym for the biggest tech companies.
by martincmartin 5y ago
yep, exactly. When Facebook changed their name to Meta, people were looking for a good acronym for the biggest tech companies.
- vmception 5y agoNAAAM, a tour in NAAAM I need to get back on Blind to make my memes propagate
- indigochill 5y agoInteresting that out of five corporations, only two letters are represented. Ok, "A" is ranked third in frequency in the English language, but the other one I avoided in these sentences? Not even in the top twelve.
- sangnoir 5y agoFreqency at the begining of words is likely to be different to frequency anywhere in the word. Regardless, "a" has the highest frequency in the company names, when spelled out in full (occurring 6 times, in 3 of the 5 corporations)
- cercatrova 5y agoCould be M2A3, like the tank.
- tdeck 5y agoIt's kind of weird to use Alphabet in this context because people at Google seem to mostly still refer to it as Google, and the comp and hiring standards vary widely between the "other bets".
- neltnerb 5y agoI mean, I imagine Facebook employees still call it facebook too? I like it, I hope it catches on. Right now I think it's just odd looking because it's unfamiliar.
- rglullis 5y agoGAMMA?