The term Wi-Fi that many believe to mean Wireless Fidelity was coined in 1999 as a wordplay on Hi-Fi since the creator of this standard with official name IEEE 802.11b Direct Sequence wanted a catchier name.

Analysis of more than 500 million spam messages showed that e-mail addresses starting with "A", "M" or "S" get more junk mail than the ones starting with "Q" or "Z".

Xerox company takes its name from xerography, a word derived from the Greek xeros (dry) and graphos (writing).