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you would think google having a mission statement of "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" they could avoid accidentally reusing a name that is still in use for other technologies.
so, maybe they're doing it intentionally?
golang gopher - 1999 (was adopted after golang came into existence)
an "unfortunate" non-google-related language - 2003