Just because people learn that way as a child, that doesn't mean that it's the best way to learn.

Acronyms are words. They're words formed out of the initial letters of a phrase or name.

Why would that happen?

People who used Google Talk didn't use it as a stepping stone to XMPP. They stayed on Google Talk.

we need to go and fight Big Tech.

Fight them by...doing exactly what they want?

I found this on archive.org.