I'm not responding to anything other than the rebranding myth, because that's what I originally responded about. Going beyond that scope would involve walls of text that HN is ill-suited for, as evidenced by the amount of text already written for a narrowly-scoped topic.

I'm here because I saw a comment repeating a falsehood, and wanted to call it out. I dislike seeing blatantly wrong things such as this:

https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/201...