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garfieldnate
on July 22, 2020
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Things Unexpectedly Named After People
The most surprising one to me is MySQL, which is named after Widenius's daughter, My. My is a Vietnamese name and it's pronounced like English "me", so maybe we've been pronouncing MySQL wrong this whole time!
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