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{{quote|"And ''I'' wanted to name the store iMario, because anything with a lowercase I has got to be technologically advanced."
|'''[[Mario]]''' in a<ref>unfortunately no longer available</ref> redub of ''[[The Great Mission to Save Princess Peach]]''}}
Remember how we'd attach the letter E to everything? Good times. It stood for "electronic", so it could damn well apply to any new gadget at the time. Ancient history now...We've moved a vowel over.
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* The Amiga browser IBrowse. Yes, it's a capital "I."
* Kraft held a naming competition for a variation of Vegemite in Australia, the winner was iSnack 2.0. The backlash was so bad they dropped the name within a few days, held a new competition where the winner was selected by popular vote and now its called Cheesybite.
* There's a brand of dog crates called [https://web.archive.org/web/20130313070007/http://www.petstreetmall.com/Midwest-iCrate-Dog-Crates/2951.html iCrates]. What does this have to do with the internet or technology? Uhhh....
* iMeem, before [[Myspace]] bought it.
* This troper's college replaced the old IR multiple-choice remotes used in a few classes with snazzy new ones that use RF, which means there's no more having to point the remote at a couple of receivers. They're suspiciously Apple-white and called iClickers, even though they don't have anything to do with internet connectivity. They're fine for what they are, but the name is just irksome.
* [[IAntiVirus]].
* Introducing, the new KFC [https://web.archive.org/web/20120604032651/http://www.kfc.com/itwist/ iTwist!]
* There's a New England-based party supply store named iParty.
* Intel's current line of Core processors have specific models designated by i followed by a number (i3, i5, i7, etc).
* There's a brand of iPod knock-offs called the iRiver. The only real advantage to having one is that it's (comparatively) cheap to buy. Other than that, it's slow, the sound quality is awful, and it's irritating as hell.
** Actually iRiver [[MP3]] players predate the iPod (although they were originally CD based). Contrary to the above they are known for extremely high sound quality, but are let down by the stock headphones.
* The japanese telecommunication company NTT Docomo had a cellphone Internet service which was also exported in some western countries called "i-mode".[
* Australian telecommunications company [[wikipedia:IiNet|iiNet]] seems determined to one-up everyone by adding ''two'' 'i's to everything. Their offerings include iiBroadband2, iiPhone, and iiNetPhone.
* HP/Compaq had the iPAQ PDAs in 2000
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** "Which color iTem are you going to get?"
** Lowercase "i"s seem to be a [[Running Gag]] on the site, in any context. Supposedly it began with the fact that the font used to write the name of Trodgor the "BURNINATOR" has an uppercase I that looks lowercase, and it took off from there.
* ''[[Futurama]]'' has at least two instances of this: iZac, a robot version of Isaac from ''[[The Love Boat]]''; and iHawk, a robot version of Hawkeye from ''[[
** In a recent episode, Mom (serving as a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] version of Steve Jobs) released the eyePhone, which gets [[Eye Scream|injected directly into your eye]], comes with [[Take That|no choice of carrier, and does not guarantee the quality of the battery or reception]] --
*** "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"
* There are a lot of icons that parody the iPod commercials which have iTrope captions. [http://community.livejournal.com/ipodicons This Livejournal community] and this [http://macrochan.org/tag45 gallery]{{Dead link}} are chock-full of 'em.
* ''[[Witchblade (anime)|Witchblade]]'' Anime has iWeapons. Though [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|in this case]] "i" stands ''not'' for "[[Everything Is Online|internet]]"...
* The [[ISophagus]] was in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
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* In [[Ace Attorney Investigations]], there is an airline called "iFly". [[Deadpan Snarker]] Edgeworth promptly comments on how troubling the overuse of this trope is in his [[Inner Monologue]].
* ''[[My Immortal]]'' has Vampire being described as wearing iShadow at one point.
* ''[[Retail]]'' made fun of iThings creeping into everything. [
* One of the commercials in the ''[[StarCraft II]]'' Terran campaign is for the "iPistol".
* Back in the late 1970s when "z" was the cool letter, Apple's Steve "The Woz" Wozniak distributed fake ads at the First West Coast Computer Faire for Altair's upcoming "Zaltair 8080" computer, featuring the new bazic programming language, verZatility I/O, and perZonality customization.
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