When this project was first published, the name of the company that published it was AOL. Before that, the company was called America Online. Subsequently it was named Oath, and now it's Verizon Media.
Names change. The common theme: names are not easy, sometimes they are beloved brands, sometimes they fall out of favor. Sometimes they were just bad ideas from the start, but happened anyway.
This gives rise to an interesting challenge for open source projects when you have an open source project in a github org, and the name of your company changes (or your company gets acquired), should you move the project? The problem is real since you don't want to lose your community, but you don't want to be stuck in the past.
Names change. The common theme: names are not easy, sometimes they are beloved brands, sometimes they fall out of favor. Sometimes they were just bad ideas from the start, but happened anyway.
This gives rise to an interesting challenge for open source projects when you have an open source project in a github org, and the name of your company changes (or your company gets acquired), should you move the project? The problem is real since you don't want to lose your community, but you don't want to be stuck in the past.