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I once heard a story about a client who thought HTML was short for "hotmail".
by _0nvm 3y ago
I once heard a story about a client who thought HTML was short for "hotmail".
- bombcar 3y agoThey were almost right, the original HoTMaiL was stylized like that because the word was picked as having "mail" and "HTML" in it.
- mywittyname 3y agoThat's actually really clever.
- bombcar 3y agoSamba was named the same way: >The name "Samba" was derived by running the Unix command grep through the system dictionary looking for words that contained the letters S, M, and B, in that order (i.e. grep -i '^s.*m.*b' /usr/share/dict/words).
- eric_the_read 3y agoJust imagine if they had gone with "sombrero", how much more fun networking would be. Or smörgåsbord!
- nerdponx 3y agoWhy S M and B?
- meindnoch 3y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block
- takeda 3y agoI think they were also one of the first web based e-mails. This was when majority people used email clients.
- _0nvm 3y agoI would argue the majority of email users back in the 90's were actually using Unix clients like Pine. Some of the first major users of email in those times were college students, all universities setup email accounts for each student, hundreds of thousands of daily email users, which could be checked at dedicated terminals in libraries, etc. Those were usually Pine. Just think of those many thousands of users all knowing the Pine keyboard shortcuts to send an email -- I think I can still remember them, actually. There was no mouse.
- _0nvm 3y agoThis client was I think a novice web designer and assumed all web files were "hotmail files" as a result of this misunderstanding.
- Xerox9213 3y ago[dead]