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Makes one miss gen-- Internet when things could be named Kermit, Archie and Veronica without involving the vertically integrated marketing apparatus. (I forgot

by adolph 3y ago

Makes one miss gen-- Internet when things could be named Kermit, Archie and Veronica without involving the vertically integrated marketing apparatus. (I forgot about Jughead) "Kermit was named after Kermit the Frog from The Muppets, with permission from Henson Associates." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_(protocol) "The name derives from the word "archive" without the v. Emtage has said that contrary to popular belief, there was no association with the Archie Comics.[9] Despite this, other early Internet search technologies such as Jughead and Veronica were named after characters from the comics. Anarchie, one of the earliest graphical FTP clients was named for its ability to perform Archie searches." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie_(search_engine)

wkat4242 3y ago
Yeah in this case the company (PTT) paid a TON of money to Henson, so much that they eventually had to re-brand to Greenpoint (which mustn't have been cheap). Their logo was all green. They were pretty bad at marketing in those days, they only got better in the 00's when they had moved from a state-owned telco to a private one. They had some hit adverts like one based on common spelling mistakes when texting on the old mobile phones in those days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuW6Q0NQmps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuW6Q0NQmps (If you don't speak Dutch you won't get it though)
- adolph 3y ago
  > texting on the old mobile phones Was this in the T9 days or before then? (I wish the archivist had added metadata to the ad, which seemed to capitalize on similar spelled fish products(?).) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text) I wonder what it was like for the two communications to Henson: * Hey Jim, we called this computer file transfer protocol after Kermit, is that ok? * Dear Henson Production Lawyers, we wish to engange in an IP partnership...

by adolph 3y ago

wkat4242 3y ago

Yeah in this case the company (PTT) paid a TON of money to Henson, so much that they eventually had to re-brand to Greenpoint (which mustn't have been cheap). Their logo was all green. They were pretty bad at marketing in those days, they only got better in the 00's when they had moved from a state-owned telco to a private one. They had some hit adverts like one based on common spelling mistakes when texting on the old mobile phones in those days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuW6Q0NQmps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuW6Q0NQmps (If you don't speak Dutch you won't get it though)

adolph 3y ago
> texting on the old mobile phones Was this in the T9 days or before then? (I wish the archivist had added metadata to the ad, which seemed to capitalize on similar spelled fish products(?).) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T9_(predictive_text) I wonder what it was like for the two communications to Henson: * Hey Jim, we called this computer file transfer protocol after Kermit, is that ok? * Dear Henson Production Lawyers, we wish to engange in an IP partnership...