Yahoo! Sony, Motorola, RedHat, Oracle, Google, etc. These names are mentioned everyday in the Tech world. These guys were among the top in the technology and internet business industry. Here’s an interesting fact We know who they are and what they do, but we might not know how they settled with their brand name and the story behind it unless we really dig hard into the history book. Here are 18 Internet giants (inclusive of Yahoo, Xerox, Sun Microsystem, Sony, SAP, Red Hat, Oracle, Motorola, Lotus, Intel, Hewlett Packard, Hotmail, Google, Cisco, Apple Computers, Apache and Adobe) and stories on how they end up with their names. Full content after jump.

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Yahoo!

The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book Gulliver’s Travels. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action and is barely human. Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name because they considered themselves yahoos.

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Xerox

The Greek root “xer” means dry. The inventor, Chestor Carlson, named his product Xerox as it was dry copying, markedly different from the then prevailing wet copying.

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