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We use Pokemon.

There's something super memorable about Blastoise, Slowbro, Squirtle, Ninetales, Jigglypuff...

I also color my tabs the color of the Pokemon for fast reference.

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This comment is interesting (as well as the other 2 children saying they also use Pokemon for host names), as there has been a study about how kids had fantastic abilities at recognizing Pokemon, but could not achieve the same levels of memorization with flora and fauna: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924673

This inspired a researcher to create a card game similar to Pokemon, but for our biosphere: http://phylogame.org/

We do as well. The NAS is Snorlax, the GPU server is Pikachu, and the workstations are Eevee and Vulpix. I would have named the printer Ditto but apparently IT has a policy on printer names.

We're using pokemon ascii art[0] as welcome banners on our servers, makes it easier to notice if you logged into the wrong server.

[0] http://www.angelfire.com/mn/Maija/pokemon/pokepack.zip

those are only 120

RPI does this with many of their dynamic hostnames, search Pikachu to find that section.

ftp://ftp.rpi.edu/etc/hosts

I graduated in '08 and had no idea. Thanks!

This is freaking brilliant. I grew up with that game and never even considered using them for hostnames.

Considering the first generation, we would have enough names for 151 machines.

I always had the idea, but never enough machines to name.

My old department at the UvA did the same in the past, new sysadmin changed it to European capitol cities. (I'll never lose muscle memory for typing sandshrew and farfetch.) Come to think of it, the DNS server should've been called PokeDex...

(btw, the mail infra consisted only of carebears... I'm looking at YOU J.P.!)

The old UK dial-up service Freeserve used to use these too.

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