Do you think Meetic is per reference to the word “mythical”? Or is it a portmanteau with the acronym Scatto? It is more complicated than that.
We told you why Tinder is called Tinder per 2019. Then con 2020, why Bumble is called Bumble. For 2022, we’re continuing this series of tech names dedicated puro dating apps with one of the most well-known – and oldest – services still sopra operation: Meetic. Because there is also verso little story behind the name of Meetic.
Launched per by Marc Simoncini, Meetic quickly established itself as one of the key players in the dating online – giammai doubt you come across his radioricevente commercials or Televisione clips from time to time. Con 2005, the platform went public and, six years later, it ended up falling into the hands of the American giant Gara.
Meetic could have been called Soon
But before being called Meetic, Meetic was almost called… Soon (“Soon”, durante English). This was revealed by Marc Simoncini during an exchange with the Internet Journal con 2007 : ” Initially Meetic was to be called Soon “. But this track ended up being discarded. It was an agency, Daesk, that ended up coming up with the preoccupazione for the name Meetic.
However, Soon had had the favors of the founder, as recalled per 2006 the site eCommerceMag. Soon was on the final “short list” because the name was perceived as ” very feminine, very pretty, very round “, while Meetic sounded more curtly: “ Verso bit ‘ic’ technical, not great “, he said. This gives a bit of verso clack effect, like calcolatore 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 con 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. Verso portmanteau between “Meet” (“meeting” con English) and “ICT” (acronym for Information and Communication Technologies), onesto show the role of digital technology durante romantic encounters.
Per fact, the motivation is clearly drawn from the wish not onesto suggest that the convegno, love at first sight, must wait, will happen, is on the way, as “Soon” suggested. Sopra 2007, the Internet Journal draws an explanation from the sistema entitled Extraordinary little stories of entrepreneurspublished the same year by the Presses Universitaires de France.
« Soon means soon, or per deferred promise. But the meeting does not wait. And the dream of any encounter is that it be mythical, that it be at the origin of a new story as myths are at the origin of the birth of the world. The company will therefore not be called Soon soulsingles 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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