Two Stanford Universitystudents developed the search engineand patented the algorithm in 1998. It was originally named BackRub for its use of so-called back links on the World Wide Web, and the name Google comes from the word “googol”—the number 1 with 100 zeros after it. Google was fi...
According to the Hartford Courant, the Moscow mule was invented by John G. Martin of G.F. Heublein Brothers of Hartford, a spirits and food distributor. He named it the Moscow mule because it contains vodka, which actually is associated with Russia, while “mule” is the term for the ...
The original Cheetos date back to 1948, and were invented by Frito’s creator C.E. Doolin. In a famous success story, Richard Montanez, a janitor at Frito-Lay, added chili powder to a batch of Cheetos that had accidentally been made without the requisite cheese powder dusting. He pitched...