I, Dorothy. iDorothy. I...Dorothy. Dorothy One.

Weird foreshadowing of the day: Twister and the iMac.
Not the computer itself, but the name, the stereotype of adding a 'i' to the beginning of a name. I always wondered where it had come. Why 'i' ?
 Apple had previously invested in a 'e' as in eWorld and eMate.

The iMac was announced in 1998. In 1996, Twister was one of the biggest movies of the year. And when the camera pans across the plot-central instrument probe, the V'ger from Kansas itself, we see its name painted on its metal side: IDOROTHY.
'Dorothy' makes obvious sense, especially as its based on the TOTO probe was built and used in real life in 1980's.

Can we really argue with this? Okay,  the I is the Roman numeral one.  Mark One, Mod One, Unit One? The 'second' DOROTHY is labeled IV.
But needless to say, tens of millions of people watched this movie in 1996,and two years later the iMac is named.
Now incidentally, iMac wasn't a Jobs idea. His choice was the 'MacMan', deftly ripped off the Sony Walkman.
Ken Segall claims credit for the iMac moniker, and I would really like to know if he had ever gone to the theater and watched Twister.