By the way, why is Meetic called Meetic?
Do you think Meetic is a reference puro the word “mythical”? Or is it verso portmanteau with the acronym Scatto? It is more complicated than that.
We told you why Tinder is called Tinder per 2019. Then sopra zoosk da pc 2020, why Bumble is called Bumble. For 2022, we’re continuing this series of tech names dedicated onesto dating apps with one of the most well-known – and oldest – services still durante operation: Meetic. Because there is also a little story behind the name of Meetic.
Launched in by Marc Simoncini, Meetic quickly established itself as one of the key players per the dating online – per niente doubt you quale across his radiotrasmissione commercials or Canale clips from time sicuro time. Durante 2005, the platform went public and, six years later, it ended up falling into the hands of the American giant Incontro.
Meetic could have been called Soon
But before being called Meetic, Meetic was almost called… Soon (“Soon”, in English). This was revealed by Marc Simoncini during an exchange with the Internet Journal sopra 2007 : ” Initially Meetic was preciso be called Soon “. But this track ended up being discarded. It was an agency, Daesk, that ended up coming up with the idea for the name Meetic.
However, Soon had had the favors of the founder, as recalled mediante 2006 the site eCommerceMag. Soon was on the final “short list” because the name was perceived as ” very feminine, very pretty, very tempo “, while Meetic sounded more curtly: “ A bit ‘ic’ technical, not great “, he said. This gives a bit of per clack effect, like cervello elettronico, digital or programmatic.
The story goes that it was sopra the last hours before the official launch of the service that the choice of name ended up being stopped by Marc Simoncini. It will be Meetic. Too bad for Soon. And obviously that hasn’t hurt the success of the platform, given its longevity and audience, which numbers sopra the millions every month.
You may have quale across guesses about the meaning of the name: a pun on “mythical” (or “mythic”), because your story will be great, epic, enduring. A portmanteau between “Meet” (“meeting” in English) and “ICT” (acronym for Information and Communication Technologies), esatto esibizione the role of digital technology in romantic encounters.
In fact, the motivation is clearly drawn from the wish not sicuro suggest that the incontro, love at first sight, must wait, will happen, is on the way, as “Soon” suggested. Durante 2007, the Internet Journal draws an explanation from the rete informatica entitled Extraordinary little stories of entrepreneurspublished the same year by the Presses Universitaires de France.
« Soon means soon, or verso deferred promise. But the riunione does not wait. And the dream of any encounter is that it be mythical, that it be at the origin of per new story as myths are at the origin of the birth of the world. The company will therefore not be called Soon but Meetic. Let’s meet hic et nunc, here and now. »
Because per Latin, the phrase hic et nunc means “immediately, without delay”. Clearly, the encounter must be mythical and immediate.
By the way, why is Meetic called Meetic?
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