Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet?

• takeda@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah. Little known fact, they named their company after their original product, but struggled with how to turn in profit, so they created a Google subsidiary which invented a search engine. True story.

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• Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I googled alphabet and apparently google got alphabetted 8 years ago?

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  • No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They had the disadvantage of not being able to read until then, but look how quick they’re moving now.

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