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Answer: Scott, as in Scott Tissue and Scott Towels.
QUICK QUIZ: MORE TISSUE • During World War I, cotton was used for surgical dressings Answer: Dell. and as filters in gas masks. As the war progressed, A VERYdemand LARGEoutstripped NUMBERsupply and it became urgent to find a substitute material. • Edward Kasner was a mathematician. In 1938 • The Kimberly-Clark company, he was asked to come up with aa paper name manufor a facturing basedtheinnumeral Wisconsin, came up very largefirm number: one, followed by a ahundred zeros. He asked his twothat young with substitute called Cellucotton was nephews what name they It would made from wood fibers. madesuggest. an excellent substituteMilton not only for gas masks but • cotton Nine-year-old suggested a name out for of the funnies. A cartoon strip character also bandages. namedthe Barney was very popular. Milton • When war ended, Kimberly-Clark hadchose huge Barney’s last name for the number. surpluses of Cellucotton on hand. Searching • for Kasner announced for the big a peace-time usethe fornew theirname product, in 1924 number in up hiswith next abook, the to spelling. they came tissuealtering designed remove • cold Sixtycream yearsmake-up later, Larry and Sergey usedPage by actors. It wasBrin a far developed a new internet search engine. Other better alternative than using towels and handsearch engines searched each webpage and kerchiefs to remove makeup. They called them ranked them according to how many times a Celluwipes at first, before settling on a new specific term appeared on them, but Page and name. Brin designed their search engine to search for the specific term stars and then find out howthat many • Ads using movie convinced ladies the links there thatway ledtoback to that page,at tissues were were the best remove makeup which resulted in aHollywood better search engine. the same time that movie stars were • convincing They decided they needed name that the American publica that wearing reflected how many websites the search makeup was acceptable. engine was searching. They took the name • Inof 1928 theKasner’s pop-up very tissuelarge dispenser was inEdward number, only vented and the tissues began be used as a they misspelled it slightly, so it to ended up being disposable handkerchief, an idea proposed by spelled exactly the same way the cartoon acharacter researcher who suffered from hay fever. The Barney spelled his last name. What’s company slogan, ‘Don’t carry a it called? introduced (Answer at the bottom of page) cold in yourCOMPUTER pocket’ whileFACTS pushing the sanitary benefits of using the product. Today the product • In 1981 Bill Gates said, “640 kb of memory isought usedtoworldwide name has become a be enoughand for the anybody.” nearly generic term for tissue. What’s it called? • Moore’s Law states that computer performance (Answer below) doubles every 18 to 24 months, and ever since 1971, this has beenFACT true. •• To stifle a sneeze, press between the HP, Google, Microsoft, the and area Apple were all upper the nose. startedlipinand garages.
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