In May 1963, the Coca-Cola Company introduced TaB diet soda pic.twitter.com/jTFGMa1cSz— RetroNewsNow (@RetroNewsNow) May 1, 2018
This isn't my first post about my favorite beverage. Back in February, 2009, shortly after starting the blog, I shared this fun tidbit about how Tab got its name:
When Coke was looking for a name for their diet cola, they configured an IBM 1401 computer to print all four letter word combinations that had a vowel. This generated over 250,000 words; they also added names suggested by employees. After cutting out stupid combinations, Coca-Cola narrowed the list to 600 possibilities and checked each of these against existing trademarks. By the time of the final selection, there were less than two dozen choices left. TABB was the final choice. Before production began, the superfluous "B" was dropped, leaving us with TAB.
You can read that early post here, but unfortunately the link to the Tab website no longer works.
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