On 2017-02-01 15:43, Michael Kjörling wrote:
Short of unimaginative things like calling my home
router IMP[2] or
things like that, can anyone either suggest names with a bit of
background (where they were, what hardware, what time period, etc.),
or point me toward online resources where I can find lists of those?
I could drop names, but at some point the labels became quite uniform.
To illustrate that, look at the labels in an old top1000 of USENET
sites.
http://top1000.anthologeek.net/2000/12/full.txt
They bore quickly.
The largest secondary tld nameserver ever was simply called ns
(
ns.EU.net)
I don't recall the internal hostname, but it was probably some norse
god like balder or buri.
Some stuff that randomply pops up in my mind:
- anon and penet
Reference to anon.penet.fi, early to mid '90s, a generic 386/486 box at
Julfs house and at undisclosed locations later on.
Suitable for naming mail relays, outgoing mail servers and anonymity
realetd services.
- kremvax
Fictional machine. Suitable for jokes, routers related to anything in
the east.
- mcvax, mcsun
Suitable for anything related to europe.
- sunsite
A 90s thing. Suitable for sharing software, and, as a pun on Sun, java
related stuff maybe.
- gatekeeper
Again, labels became boring,
ftp.uu.net was famous as ftp site, but
gatekeeper.dec.com had
a cool hostname.
- chronos
chronos.eu.net was a go to time server in europe, replaced by
rolex.ripe.net.
- agate
After
agate.berkeley.edu, where BSD escaped the university until the
lawyers stepped in.