# google using names of pre-existing things

you would think google having a mission statement of "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" they could avoid accidentally reusing a name that is still in use for other technologies.
so, maybe they're doing it intentionally?

## gemini
=> https://geminiprotocol.net/ gemini protocol - 2019
=> https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemini-ai/ google's gemini AI - 2023

## go/gopher
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game) go board game - 500 BC
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) gopher protocol - 1991
=> https://go.dev/blog/gopher golang gopher - 1999 (was adopted after golang came into existence)
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)#Conflict_with_Google an "unfortunate" non-google-related language - 2003
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language) golang itself - 2007

## gfs
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_file_system#cite_node-2 global file system - 1990
=> http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//archive/gfs-sosp2003.pdf google file system - 2003
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFS2 global file system 2 - 2005 (this came after google, but it is what I was looking for when google showed up in my search results)

## chrome
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chrome_(Mozilla) Chrome_(Mozilla) - 1997
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome google chrome - 2008
=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome#Computing handful of other computer related things called chrome