1. Every wondered why the company Apple is called Apple? The popularly believed theory is that Steve Jobs had spent some time working in apple orchards in Oregon and began a "fruitarian diet" ( which allowed him to eat only fruits, nuts, and seeds). When naming his company, he thought that the name "Apple" would be simple, fun and spirited. Another theory is that it was a tribute to Apple Records, the music label of the Beatles.
2. Microsoft Windows is called got the name "Windows" because at the time when the team was working on the project, they worked in a big building without any windows. They wanted to "build the windows". Microsoft also has a history of using short words like Office and Word to sound official and direct.
3. Google was originally supposed to be named "Googol" to represent the number 10^100 but the companies founders misspelled it, and the company instead was named "Google" (which is now a verb!
"Can you Google that?") The colors of the letters also represent legos.
4. Google's founders were Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They created Google to clear up the internet and make it much more accessible to people trying to search for things. The way it works is that Google copies millions of pages to index them and duplicate them into their own service. In the beginning, some companies and website owners were appalled at this. They thought it was stealing and didn't realize that without Google, their website would go unvisited. Google uses "Googlebots" to attach to the websites and monitor the change and update so Google can update it in their search engine. "Page Rank" determines which pages to show first based on which sites have to most links linked to them. It is like a popularity contest.
5. The original Apple logo looked like this -
It is a picture of Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree which is a theory of Newton's law of gravitation.
This is what it changed to a rainbow apple -
Before it was finally changed to the simple current version -
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