More thorough explanation on this point, for wikipedia

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 .SH "If \'npm\' is an acronym, why is it never capitalized?"
 Contrary to the belief of many, "npm" is not in fact an abbreviation for
 "Node Package Manager"\.  It is a recursive bacronymic abbreviation for
-"npm is not an acronym"\.
+"npm is not an acronym"\.  (If it was "ninaa", then it would be an
+acronym, and thus incorrectly named\.)
 .
 .P
-"NPM", however, \fIis\fR an acronym for the National Association of
-Pastoral Musicians\.  You can learn more about them at \fIhttp://npm\.org/\fR\|\.
-It is not an acronym, you see, but rather a capitonym\.
+"NPM", however, \fIis\fR an acronym (more precisely, a capitonym) for the
+National Association of Pastoral Musicians\.  You can learn more
+about them at \fIhttp://npm\.org/\fR\|\.
 .
 .P
-In all earnestness, "npm" is named after its command\-line utility,
-which was mostly designed to be easily typed by right\-handed programmers
-using US QWERTY keyboard layouts, ending with the right\-ring\-finger in a
-postition to type the \fB"\-"\fR key for flags and other command\-line
-arguments, and is always lower\-case, though it starts most sentences it
-is a part of\.
+In software, "NPM" is a non\-parametric mapping utility written by
+Chris Rorden\.  You can analyze pictures of brains with it\.  Learn more
+about the (capitalized) NPM program at \fIhttp://www\.cabiatl\.com/mricro/npm/\fR\|\.
+.
+.P
+The first seed that eventually grew into this flower was a bash utility
+named "pm", which was a shortened descendent of "pkgmakeinst", a
+bash function that was used to install various different things on different
+platforms, most often using Yahoo\'s \fByinst\fR\|\.  If \fBnpm\fR was ever an
+acronym for anything, it was \fBnode pm\fR or maybe \fBnew pm\fR\|\.
+.
+.P
+So, in all seriousness, the "npm" project is named after its command\-line
+utility, which was organically selected to be easily typed by a right\-handed
+programmer using a US QWERTY keyboard layout, ending with the
+right\-ring\-finger in a postition to type the \fB\-\fR key for flags and
+other command\-line arguments\.  That command\-line utility is always
+lower\-case, though it starts most sentences it is a part of\.
 .
 .SH "How do I list installed packages?"
 \fBnpm ls\fR