What Name Would You Give To Your Computer?

7:20AM August 5, 2009 | Sean Fallon

People like to give names to cherished objects like cars, guitars and machine guns—but what about computers? What would you / have you named it?

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  • Bennish

    August 5, 2009 at 8:26 AM

    Can’t go past Skynet

    • Death Duck

      August 5, 2009 at 9:12 AM

      The only reason I clicked on this link was to give the name Skynet. Good to see it’d already been proposed.

    • Ameoba

      August 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM

      Mine is named ‘Turk’ after ‘The Turk’ being the name given to the chess playing computer that was the first development stage of ‘Skynet’.
      It’s called ‘The Turk’ after a chess playing machine from the 18th Century that resembeled a Turkish man.

  • Shane

    August 5, 2009 at 8:44 AM

    Sith lords…Sidious, Vadar, Maul, etc…but my wife didn’t like these…
    Hal, mini-hal…my wife still doesn’t like these…

    I have a NAS named snapdragon, which I think my wife likes…

    I worked at a studio that named all there systems using Spanish names…no idea why, but it did make for consistancy…that I could neither spell or pronoune half our systems…

    But mostly my systems get called all sorts of swear words …

  • Mae

    August 5, 2009 at 9:14 AM

    I’ve named my computers (chronologically from the oldest named):
    Kenobi
    Jubilee
    Torchwood (and one its partitions Three)

  • Murty

    August 5, 2009 at 9:23 AM

    always has to start with ‘lol’ my laptop is currently called ‘loltop’

  • matt

    August 5, 2009 at 9:50 AM

    hmm, I think there is something less personal about an object you tare open and rip the innards out of every couple of years…

    never the less, i think I’d call mine Barry.

  • JB

    August 5, 2009 at 10:07 AM

    Any self-respecting geek NEEDS to name their computers – if only for network identification.
    Personally, each of those in my collection are named after Norse gods – Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Tyr, Odin, Freya.

  • Sean

    August 5, 2009 at 10:21 AM

    My laptop is named 790, after everyone’s favourite robot head.

  • Shane Kerr

    August 5, 2009 at 10:22 AM

    Wintermute for my current machine. Older desktop named Xoanon. Used to have a powerbook called “Lord Of The Files”. Have a preference for names of computers in works of fiction.

    • Jamie-dean kerr

      November 30, 2009 at 10:07 AM

      do you have a sister named corrine from new zealand?

  • Que

    August 5, 2009 at 10:30 AM

    all my babies are named according to kitchen spices/related items. I have:
    salt, Pepper, Chillie, Cumin, Cinnamon and Choppingboard.

  • cleverclogs

    August 5, 2009 at 11:38 AM

    Mothership, and various iterations.

  • Justin

    August 5, 2009 at 11:47 AM

    Nirvana (Server)
    Buddha (Main PC)
    Mini Buddha (Laptop)
    Micro Buddha (iPod Touch)

  • Aaron Browning

    August 5, 2009 at 12:05 PM

    Playstation 3: Godzilla. It has already been named so.

  • Perry

    August 5, 2009 at 12:21 PM

    Wifi network = cybertron

    *you are now connected to cybertron*

  • Matthew

    August 5, 2009 at 12:27 PM

    My last one was called eddie (see hitch-hickers guide to the galaxy)

    and my current one is the unimaginative: blackbox

  • Bennish

    August 5, 2009 at 12:37 PM

    Colonial One

  • Elly Hart

    August 5, 2009 at 12:40 PM

    I call my computer, “the computer”.

  • Olt

    August 5, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    Caladan, Ix, Corrin, Chapterhouse, etc… and of course my server is Arrakis… the spice must flow!

  • Mark

    August 5, 2009 at 12:51 PM

    Backup Server is called ‘Halo’

  • Mark

    August 5, 2009 at 12:53 PM

    Oh and the server in the closet under the stairs is called ‘Harrypotter’

  • spiderlama

    August 5, 2009 at 12:59 PM

    Initially it was Matrix characters, now I think it’s time for Mario characters.

  • Ameoba

    August 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM

    Holly and Queeg from Red Dwarf

  • Citizen Charles

    August 5, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    Hindu gods are appropriate! Currently Vishnu, but the Hindu pantheon is ginormous and enables huge subtlety (which I currently don’t have, obviously).

  • Hawse

    August 5, 2009 at 1:44 PM

    Rebuilding my machines so often, the hardest bit was choosing the name for the network ID, so my current convention is Christopher Walken characters.

    Desktop: Zorin (A View to a Kill)
    Work laptop: Gabriel (The Prophecy)
    Old laptop/vmware server: Vincenzo (True Romance)
    eeePC: Morty (Click)

    Which reminds me, I have yet to name my TV… think I’ll call it CaptainKoons (Pulp Fiction)

  • Tyler

    August 5, 2009 at 1:45 PM

    My girlfriend called her new laptop Erik..but then it died and they replaced it.. so she called it Erik II

  • Redback

    August 5, 2009 at 3:37 PM

    I’m addicted to coffee, so….

    My network is CAFFEINE
    My router is BARISTA (cos it serves, geddit?)
    My PCs are STARBUCKS, DOME and GLORIAJEANS (Australian)
    My laptop is MUZZBUZZ (Oz take away)
    and even my drives, partitions and portable drives are CAPPUCCINO, LATTE, MOCHA, JOLT, COKE, MAX, AMERICANO, DOPPIA, ESPRESSO, REDBULL, AFFOGATTO and RISTRETTO. “NESCAFE” is not coffee, so will never be used… :)
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