Original
Name |
|
Present
Name |
Cosmair |
|
L'Oréal |
|
Brad's Drink |
|
Pepsi Cola |
|
Backrub |
|
Google |
|
AuctionWeb |
|
EBay |
|
Bridge
Gate Computers |
|
Compaq
(on insistence of Ben Rosen. one of first
investors, NameLab was called in) |
|
AT&T
GIS |
|
NCR
(back to their original name) |
Brad's Drink |
|
Pepsi Cola |
|
i586 |
|
Pentium |
|
Anderson
Consulting |
|
Accenture
(name change required by "divorce"
- in hindsight magic after Anderson Accounting's scandals) |
|
Price
Waterhouse Coopers |
|
Bearing
Point |
|
Oak
(Software)
and Green before that! |
|
Java |
|
Tokyo
Telecom. Engr. Corp. |
|
Sony
(when the product became more famous than the
parent) |
|
World
Communications |
|
MCI
(back to its original name) |
|
Oak
(Software) |
|
Java |
|
Sound
Around |
|
Walkman |
|
Cellular
One (and others) |
|
Cingular |
|
Mosaic
Systems |
|
Netscape |
|
Marafuku |
|
Nintendo |
|
RadarOven |
|
Microwave |
|
Salton
Cooker |
|
George
Foreman's lean mean fat reducing grilling machine. |
|
Wards |
|
Circuit
City |
|
ActiveTouch |
|
Webex |
|
DrivUrSelf |
|
Hertz
Rent-A-Car |
|
The
Mining Co. |
|
About.com |
|
International
Harvester |
|
Navistar |
|
Tricord
(and before that Pepsi) |
|
Yum!
Brands (holding co. for KFC, Taco Bell, Round
Table Pizza, A&W, Long John Silver, etc.) |
|
Blue
Ribbon Sports |
|
Nike |
|
Stag
Party |
|
Playboy |
|
Firebird |
|
Firefox
(browser) |
|
FreeDiskSpace.com |
|
MySpace.com |
Confinity |
|
Paypal |
Peter's Super Submarines |
|
SUBWAY |
|
Sound of Music |
|
Best Buy |
Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web |
|
Yahoo |
Il Giornale Coffee Company |
|
Starbucks |
Computing Tabulating Recording Company |
|
International Business Machines - IBM |
Datsun |
|
Nissan |
Quantum Computer Services |
|
AOL |
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