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Brand names that have become common words
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Zoom was actually a word before 2011
Not with that meaning but yes, poor terminology on the visual since it implies it was not.
I suppose the title "brand names that became common words" implies that it was a brandname before being a common word, otherwise the reader should pretty much never assume that.
Trademarks are context sensitive, and zoom was not used as a term for video calls before that. It is interesting that that's the only one on the list that isn't also a made up word
Über is also not made up 👀
Isn’t google a real thing in numbers.
That's googol.
No gogol is a number
Where do you draw the line between made up words and non-made up words? It’s not like a supernova explosion creates new words that land on a forming planet so that a billion years later a new sentient species can just pick them up from the ground and start using them.
True, but it has gained additional meaning and uses. Before 2011, you could not "join a zoom", for example.
The TV series was in 1972
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoom_%281972_TV_series%29?wprov=sfla1
And uber was before 2009.
Not to mention many of these are literally still brand names and have not in fact been ruled generic.
Oh I see now they've made the generic ones dark grey.