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I remember hearing that the band "A" took their name so that they would be put first the record shops.
by rlv-dan 2y ago
I remember hearing that the band "A" took their name so that they would be put first the record shops.
- markovs_gun 2y agoAmazon and Apple both picked their names to show up early on in lists, and anyone who remembers the phone book days remembers all sorts of plumbers with names like "AAA plumbing"
- Symbiote 2y agoThe British company Acorn Computers picked their name to appear even earlier in the alphabet. Acer of Taiwan beat that, is there any company earlier than Acer? (Acorn was the original "A" in ARM, the Acorn Risc Machine.)
- NikkiA 2y agoThere have been thousands of 'Aardvark Computers' around the world, but afaik they have all been support/service companies rather than manufacturers.