Yesterday, when I used JIRA to build a task, this big question mark suddenly appeared in my mind.
JIRA is a commonly used event tracking and project management software in software development industry.
Unexpectedly, this sudden question mark actually opened a tortuous "puzzle-solving journey".
Since it is English, of course, the first step is to look it up in the dictionary, but I have looked it up in Oxford, Cambridge and Collins dictionaries, but I can't find this person.
This feeling is like Ye Xianglun's love for Lu Xiaoyu at first sight in the piano room in "Unspeakable Secrets". When he went back to ask, he found that there was no such person at all.
Now that my "Sherlock Holmes heart" has been aroused, I must get to the bottom of it.
Sharing a cold knowledge, google has been compiled into the Oxford English Dictionary as a verb.
If you look closely, you will find that those crooked friends around you say' I checked' less and less, while more and more people will hear' I googled', just as we will say' I googled' now.
So I googled it and found a clue in Wikipedia.
It turns out that Jira, an English word that doesn't look like English at all, comes from Gojira, and Gojira pinches a go to get Jira.
And Gojira is the famous Godzilla, a Japanese translation of Godzilla.
So why is a project management software associated with Godzilla?
Wikipedia has made a superficial explanation for this problem: it is called Godzilla because Atalassian started as a bug tracking system at first, and later the product name was Bugzilla.
Later, because a programmer in the team often deliberately called it Godzilla (presumably a big fan of Godzilla movies), the nickname spread.
If you think the truth is clear when you get here, you just fell into a trap carefully arranged by Wikipedia.
What trap? This is one of the top ten thinking traps. Try a little, without seeking an answer.
Carefully scrutinize this description of Wikipedia, in fact, behind it, there are a series of new mysteries:
This brief description is only a small part of the huge iceberg exposed on the water. To see the whole iceberg, I need to offer a unique skill-CHA official website.
I rummaged through everything in official website and finally caught the "real murderer" in the help file.
The truth starts from the year JIRA was born:
JIRA was originally born as an error tracking system. Like all parents who name their children, JIRA's founders want to pin their best wishes on JIRA in their names.
So they named JIRA? Bugzilla, bug refers to the fault in software, while zilla, with the popularity of Mozilla since the 1990s, has been widely used as a suffix in software and web page names.
This suffix comes from the English name Godzilla of the Japanese sci-fi movie Godzilla in the 1950s.
It is precisely because of this origin and everyone's unanimous love for Godzilla movies that unconsciously people began to call the product Gojira, Godzilla's original Japanese name.
Since then, with the continuous expansion of business scope and product functions, Gojira? Began to set foot in areas other than bug tracking, and the old name was no longer applicable, so Go in Gojira was cut down, and then jira's BLACKPINK appeared.
Briefly summarize the evolution history of JIRA's name, that is:
I didn't expect such an interesting story to be hidden behind a small name.
In addition to solving puzzles, I also want to use this example to encourage everyone: be curious about everything around you, even if it's just a name.
Maybe you will say "curious about everything around you" is too abstract and difficult to practice. Then share an idea I tried, that is, ask why first.
Finally, leave an interesting little question:
Why is Godzilla called Gojira in Japanese?
Tell me your opinion in the message area.
I'm your brain coach, Mr. Shang. See you next time ~
References:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-zilla
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla