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		wil421 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Private Japanese lunar lander enters orbit around ... Didn’t IBM and others use it before Apple? IBM iSeries came out before the iMac. I think a few companies were using small e and i at the time for the “cool” factor. Intel jumped on the bandwagon after the iMac, IIRC.

akovaski 9 months ago | [–]

IBM rebranded AS/400 to iSeries in 2000, which is after the iMac came out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_eServer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac

dec0dedab0de 9 months ago | [–]

Cisco had an ios and iphone before apple. though Im not sure the cisco iphone was actually ever released

wafflemaker 9 months ago | [–]

But AFAIK, Cisco IOS is all caps, not the cool lowercase i and big second letter.

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