Yep, in 2006, Twitter’s co-founders brainstormed some questionable names for the platform, including “Twitch,” “Smssy,”.
The inventor of Pop-up ads has apologized for creating them
Ethan Zuckerman, the guy who created one of the most hated forms of internet advertising in the ‘90s, has publicly apologized.
The name “Google” was an accidental creation
In 1997, Larry Page & Sergey Brin wanted to name their new search engine “Googol”—a math term for 1 followed by 100 zeros, symbolizing infinite data