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| Authored by: bugstomper on Sunday, November 04 2012 @ 03:53 PM EST |
According to the Wikipedia article on sosumi it was originally a name for a
system sound alert chime on the Mac System 7. As a result of a settlement of a
lawsuit between Apple Corps and Apple Computer, the latter was prohibited from
using their trademark on music. Apple Computer legal department required, as a
result, that the system sounds not have names that were "too musical".
The creator of the new sound for the system alert chime joked about calling it
"Let It Beep". His reaction to having it pointed out that Legal
wouldn't allow it was "So sue me!". Which gave him the idea of naming
it sosumi and telling Legal that it was a Japanese word that had nothing to do
with music.
I see by browsing archive.org Wayback Machine's historical snapshots of
www.apple.com home page that years later, starting in Dec 16, 2004, the legal
notices such as the copyright near the bottom of the page had a CSS class named
"sosumi". Up through Dec 15, 2004 the pages used tables and other
non-CSS HTML markup.
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