RFC 1178 – Choosing a name for your computer (1990)
My dad used to name computers after characters from Greek mythology. I took the idea and name my computers and devices after Norse mythology.<p>You get some cool names, but there is a fairly critical downside in that a lot of people struggle with spelling the names. Most people probably can&#x27;t spell Odysseus correctly on the first attempt, and it&#x27;s even harder to spell Jormungandr correctly.<p>I think that cutesy names like this are fine for personal use, but for commercial use you&#x27;re better of using a more standardised schema for naming.<p>Another place where companies seem to love cutesy names is meeting rooms. Maybe it&#x27;s because management wants to sound interesting, or maybe they just like painting bike sheds, but often they like to give non-standard names to meeting rooms, like names of native birds or something else that doesn&#x27;t describe the room at all. It just makes it hard to remember which room is which. How am I meant to know which room is the Tui room, and which is the Moa room?<p>Either name them by location (e.g. Second Floor, NW), or by distinguishing feature, at one job we had a meeting room with no windows, so we called it the bunker.