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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by diveandfight on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @10:32PM (#34799754)
The fact that the founders named the company based off a Hawaiian-English dictionary look-up strikes me as pretty bland-corporate, "The company was named after akamai, which means 'clever,' or more colloquially, 'cool' in Hawaiian, which Lewin had discovered in a Hawaiian-English dictionary after the suggestion of a colleague." [0]

From what I've seen living here and hearing Hawaiian Creole English (aka pidgin), nobody uses akamai to refer to something that is cool... Always used in the smart/clever context. But then again, I wouldn't expect the founders to know that if they didn't have knowledge of local Hawaii culture.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akamai_Technologies#History

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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by hparadiz on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @11:25PM (#34800086)
Look up Aegis and see how many companies use the Greek word for shield. Sometimes a name is the last thing you actually want to be dealing with when starting a company.
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Re:Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services by jonas21 on Wednesday February 15, 2023 @12:16AM (#34800377)
Hmm... I'd always assumed they wanted a name beginning with "AKA" (also known as) in reference to how their DNS would point a domain name at an edge server near the user. As in "itunes.apple.com is also known as <some random edge server>".

And there just aren't many words starting with "aka".

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