By the way, why is Meetic called Meetic?

Do you think Meetic is a reference puro the word “mythical”? Or is it a portmanteau with the acronym Abitudine? It is more complicated than that.

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

Launched in by Marc Simoncini, Meetic quickly established itself as one of the key players durante the dating online – no doubt you quale across his radio commercials or Televisore clips from time puro time. Durante 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”, in English). This was revealed by Marc Simoncini during an exchange with the Internet Journal mediante 2007 : ” Initially Meetic was puro be called Soon “. But this track ended up being discarded. It was an agency, Daesk, that ended up coming up with the ispirazione for the name Meetic.

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

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

You may have ad esempio across guesses about the meaning of the name: per 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), to show the role of digital technology mediante romantic encounters.

Sopra fact, the motivation is clearly drawn from the wish not preciso suggest that the meeting, love at first sight, must wait, will happen, is on the way, as “Soon” suggested. Con 2007, the Internet Journal draws an explanation from the rete informatica entitled Extraordinary seeking arrangement little stories of entrepreneurspublished the same year by the Presses Universitaires de France.

« Soon means soon, or verso deferred promise. But the meeting does not wait. And the dream of any encounter is that it be mythical, that it be at the origin of per 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 in Latin, the phrase hic et nunc means “immediately, without delay”. Clearly, the encounter must be mythical and immediate.