By the way, why is Meetic called Meetic?

Do you think Meetic is a reference preciso the word “mythical”? Or is it a portmanteau with the acronym Abitudine? It is more complicated than that.

We told you why Tinder is called Tinder per 2019. Then per 2020, why Bumble is called Bumble. For 2022, we’re continuing this series of tech names dedicated onesto dating apps with one of the most well-known – and oldest – services still mediante operation: Meetic. Because there is also a little story behind the name of Meetic.

Launched per by Marc Simoncini, Meetic quickly established itself as one of the key players con the dating online – no doubt you ad esempio across his radiotrasmissione commercials or Televisione clips from time onesto time. Per 2005, the platform went public and, six years later, it ended up falling into the hands of the American giant Scontro.

Meetic could have been called Soon

But before being called Meetic, Meetic was almost called… Soon (“Soon”, in English). This was revealed by Marc Simoncini during an exchange with the Internet Journal sopra 2007 : ” Initially Meetic was esatto be called Soon “. But this track ended up being discarded. It was an agency, Daesk, that ended up coming up with the ispirazione for the name Meetic.

However, Soon had had the favors of the founder, as recalled sopra 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: “ A bit ‘ic’ technical, not great “, he said. This gives per bit of verso clack effect, like cervello elettronico, digital or programmatic.

The story goes that it was per 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 in the millions every month.

You may have che razza di across guesses about the meaning of the name: a pun on “mythical” (or “mythic”), because your story will be great, epic, enduring. Per portmanteau between “Meet” (“meeting” per English) and “ICT” (acronym for Information and Communication Technologies), esatto spettacolo the role of digital technology sopra romantic encounters.

Mediante fact, the motivation is clearly drawn from the wish not puro suggest that the convegno, love at first sight, must wait, will happen, is on the way, as “Soon” suggested. Con 2007, the Internet Journal draws an explanation from the rete di emittenti entitled Extraordinary little stories of entrepreneurspublished the same year by the Presses Universitaires de France.

« Soon means soon, or verso deferred promise. But the incontro does not wait. And the dream of any encounter is that it be mythical, that it be at the origin of verso new story as myths are at the origin of the birth of the world. The company will therefore not be called Soon but Meetic. Let’s meet hic et nunc, here and now. »

Because sopra Latin, the phrase hic et nunc means “immediately, without delay”. Clearly, the encounter must be mythical and immediate.