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A software empire named after a creek, now you rent the pencil.
means A sun-dried mudbrick building material, and separately, the name of the software company you now pay a monthly fee to in order to open a PDF.
from The word traveled a long road: Arabic 'al-tub' (the brick) came from Coptic 'tobe,' itself rooted in ancient Egyptian 'djebet' (mudbrick). Spanish absorbed it as 'adobe,' and Spanish colonizers carried it into the American Southwest, where it named both the building technique and, eventually, Adobe Creek in California — which is where two founders camping nearby borrowed a name for their new software company.
- name origin
- Named after Adobe Creek in Los Altos
- business model
- Switched from owning software to monthly rent
- pdf creator
- Invented the format every office silently fears
- photoshop verb
- Became a verb meaning to fake reality