When I first heard of Vi, it was actually Vim. But people liked to call it V-I, so it was common for people to add aliases to call it vi: alias vi=vim was a common line in people’s shell profiles.
After the current NeoVim craze, with lots of influencer creating content on it and tons of new users (myself included), I see the interesting effect of people creating aliases to invoke NeoVim with vim. alias vim=nvim, (myself incldued).
I wonder when the next big editor comes, in a decade or so, let’s call it UltraNeoVim, unvim, people will start invoking it with nvim. alias nvim=unvim.