By the way, why is Meetic called Meetic?

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

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

Launched con by Marc Simoncini, Meetic quickly established itself as one of the key players in the dating online – in nessun caso doubt you ad esempio across his radiotrasmissione commercials or Canale clips from time sicuro time. In 2005, the platform went public and, six years later, it ended up falling into the hands of the American giant Incontro.

Meetic could have been called Soon

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

However, Soon had had the favors of the founder, as recalled durante 2006 the site eCommerceMag. Soon was on the final “short list” because the name was perceived as ” very feminine, very pretty, very tempo “, while Meetic sounded more curtly: “ Per bit ‘ic’ technical, not great “, he said. This gives per bit of verso clack effect, like pc, digital or programmatic.

The story goes that it was sopra the last hours before the official launch of the service that the choice of name millionairematch 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 mediante the millions every month.

You may have ad esempio across guesses about the meaning of the name: a pun on “mythical” (or “mythic”), because your story will be great, epic, enduring. A portmanteau between “Meet” (“meeting” per English) and “ICT” (acronym for Information and Communication Technologies), preciso esibizione the role of digital technology mediante romantic encounters.

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

« Soon means soon, or a deferred promise. But the convegno 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 durante Latin, the phrase hic et nunc means “immediately, without delay”. Clearly, the encounter must be mythical and immediate.