what does the "i" stand for???

[mr.w]

maybe I'm just slow or dumd, but I've been thinking, what does the prefix "i" stand for in the apple product line... ipod, imac, ibook, iphoto, imovie, itunes, etc. ???

[britboy]

Originally it was used for the iMac. The "i" stood for "internet". The whole idea was that the iMac was a computer designed for easy access to the internet. Ironically though, the first ones shipped with a puny little 33.6k modem :p

It's just caught on now, and is used as a suffix for consumer models (i know, suffix means 'at the end of the word', but you know what i mean ;)).

[McFreggle]

Internet, intelligence, ideology, interesting, illumunate, impact, implodable-when-needed, impotence-stopping, improving, independent, Indo-European, Iobs Steve, infinity, Inkwell, installable, interface, interior-decorating, irish, ...

(the list never stops actually)

k.

[mr.w]

i see... internetTunes. it does have a ring to it

[McFreggle]

Originally posted by britboy
(i know, suffix means 'at the end of the word', but you know what i mean ;)).

Yeah, a prefix. ;-)

k.

[mr.w]

indo-europeanTunes does too ;)

[britboy]

Originally posted by McFreggle


Yeah, a prefix. ;-)

k.


That's the one :D

Is that coffee i smell? Excuse me, i'll be right back when my brain's working again.

[iGav]

Or maybe 'IDIOT' as they're so easy to use....... :p

[mr.w]

Originally posted by iGAV
Or maybe 'IDIOT' as they're so easy to use....... :p

IdiotGAV has a very nice ring to it too ;)

[iGav]

Originally posted by mr.w


IdiotGAV has a very nice ring to it too ;)

*ouch* :eek: :p

So I can make one good guess about what the W in mr.w stands for then...... heh heh......:p :p :p

[AlphaTech]

Hey mr.w, you might want to fix your sig... Why anyone would want a terrabite... a bit is 1/8 of a byte... Come on people, you have to know this stuff... :rolleyes:

As for the i in the software and hardware, how about innovative?? That works. :p :D

BTW, my vote is on the 'slow'... :D

[IndyGopher]

Originally posted by britboy
Originally it was used for the iMac. The "i" stood for "internet". The whole idea was that the iMac was a computer designed for easy access to the internet. Ironically though, the first ones shipped with a puny little 33.6k modem :p


Nope. When Jobs announced it in May of '98 he said it would have a 33.6 modem, but the backlash took care of that before anything was sold. When the iMacs were released on August 15th of 1998, they did indeed have 56K modems installed. I should think an iMac with a real apple 33.6 modem installed (and therefore a pre-release prototype/demo model) would be worth quite a bit.