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TiVo Was Almost Called Bongo, Plus Other Tech Name Origins

Mentalfloss has a list of eight tech product names, their origins and what they could have been called. For example, TiVo could have been Bongo, and Hulu means butt in Indonesian. Haha, butt. [Mentalfloss]

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