[master5o1]

>It's Google docs but instead of being aimed at producing documents for prints, it is aimed at producing document for online consumption (multimedia)

Pretty weird to name it after a printed medium if it is not primarily meant for printed media.

[jasikpark]

I think the point is that it's not a printed medium. You can do anything you want with paper... It doesn't give restrictions to what you want to do. You can doodle, make a mind map, sketch an amazingly detailed human eye, or actually take notes and brainstorm in your meeting. Paper is flexible. Software is not. They think they've made a good attempt with "Paper" at providing that flexibility online.

Also: https://youtu.be/j5dHMB1eCmY

[ehsankia]

Well... You can't play play videos and music on paper.

[ihaveajob]

Chrome, the browser, was born with the idea of reducing the amount of "chrome" (frames, controls and other UI elements) in the app. I guess developers like to have fun when naming their projects.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

Well, facebook is neither a face nor a book <shrug>

[IgorPartola]

Facebook was originally an online equivalent of a yearbook, where you know, there are lots of pictures of faces.

[dragonwriter]

It was, more specifically, the online equivalent of a face book [0]. Which implies an answer to why name a product after printed media when it is not for print -- because it serves as an online equivalent or replacement.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book

[vacri]

However, a face book is a highly specific thing, where as 'paper' is about as generic as you can get - even wasps make it. Can I mop up a spill with dropbox paper? Make a hat out of it? Cut out a coupon? Make a saw[1] out of it?

Not to mention that it's far from the first product named 'paper' in our tech bubble.

[1] https://youtu.be/rYfkhdKcEiE

[toomim]

Hahaha.