Curated playlist
Computer systems companies
- MicrosoftBill Gates claimed he had a working BASIC program before he had written any of it.
- GoogleGoogle's name is a misspelling of googol, a 1 followed by 100 zeros. The search engine was first nicknamed BackRub.
- Apple Inc.Steve Jobs sold his Volkswagen Bus to help start Apple. Steve Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator to fund a circuit board.
- IBMIBM began in 1911 as a merger of four companies, including a meat slicer maker.
- NvidiaNvidia began in a Denny's diner booth in East San Jose. Three engineers met there in late 1992 to plan it.
- HisenseHisense began in 1969 as a small radio factory in Qingdao, China. Its radios were sold under the name Red Lantern.
- Valve CorporationValve Corporation was founded on the 24th of August 1996, the same day its co-founder Gabe Newell got married. Decades later, that company makes Half-Life, Counter-Strike, Portal and Dota, runs the storefront Steam, and sells handheld…
- IntelIntel almost called itself "Moore Noyce," which sounds like "more noise."
- SonySony built the PlayStation after Nintendo dropped it as a partner in 1991.
- LenovoIn 2005, Lenovo bought IBM's personal computer division, which had created the ThinkPad laptop.