Origin of name: from the Greek word  neon  meaning  new . Neon was discovered by Sir William Ramsay and Morris Travers in 1898 very shortly after their discovery of the element krypton. Both elements were discovered through work on liquid air.A little later they discovered xenon using similar methods.eon is a very inert element. Neon forms an unstable hydrate. In a vacuum discharge tube, neon glows reddish orange. Of all the rare gases, the discharge of neon is the most intense at ordinary voltages and currents. It is present in the atmosphere as 1 part in 65000.
VID is a TV production company in Russia, started by Vladislav Listyev since 1990. It is best known for producing the television programmes Wait for Me, designed to help people find loved ones and Pole Chudes which is a popular Russian version of Wheel of Fortune.
vi - Computer Definition (1) (VIsual) A Unix full-screen text editor that was originally written by Bill Joy in the 1970s and still widely used. Vi is a command-driven editor geared to programmers that evolved from the visual mode in the ex editor, its predecessor.