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We could take cues from the food world: Better Than VPN, I can't believe it's not VPN! I'm not really convinced the name is a real problem. We use a lot of ter

We could take cues from the food world: Better Than VPN, I can't believe it's not VPN! I'm not really convinced the name is a real problem. We use a lot of terms that aren't obvious and it works just fine. For example, http. First you have to learn that means Hypertext Transfer Protocol, then you have to learn what Hypertext means, and then you have to learn that it's used for a lot more than Hypertext these days.

cmeacham98 4y ago
The problem isn't that it's not obvious, but that it's actively counterintuitive. If a car company was called 'GJKN', and that stood for some obscure acronym, you'd just memorize that. But you'd probably be a lot more confused by the car company 'NoWheels' when their car still has wheels, just in different places.