The parent company changed their name to Meta because they were “focusing on the metaverse.” It’s still called Meta despite no a single person ever using their shitty second life oculus clone.
You are dead wrong. They bought Instagram like a decade ago. They changed the name like 3 or 4 years ago if that, and they picked Meta because they were all in on the metaverse
I recall thinking Zuckerberg had copied the google/alphabet change from several years prior. And naming this meta-business-entity was super easy with his metaverse obsession, lol.
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The parent company changed their name to Meta because they were “focusing on the metaverse.” It’s still called Meta despite no a single person ever using their shitty second life oculus clone.
wetsoggybread@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They changed their name to meta because they wanted to expand to more than just Facebook.com, pretty sure it was shortly after they bought instagram
Raiderkev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are dead wrong. They bought Instagram like a decade ago. They changed the name like 3 or 4 years ago if that, and they picked Meta because they were all in on the metaverse
www.nytimes.com/…/facebook-meta-name-change.html
…nytimes.com/…/facebook-buys-instagram-for-1-bill…
Zink@programming.dev 1 month ago
I recall thinking Zuckerberg had copied the google/alphabet change from several years prior. And naming this meta-business-entity was super easy with his metaverse obsession, lol.
Woht24@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes I know that, I don’t understand what the relevance is? Why would they change their name back?