Personal Electronics Naming Conventions

[gendou]

One of the things that ubiquitous networking technology has brought us is the need to name our electronic devices. For many people, this is a burden best resolved with a serial number or inventory tag. And for some, it is merely a place to yet again place their own name or initials on a device. For a few, however, it is an opportunity to let

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[insoumis]

I've owned two desktops (one of which is now, sadly, defunct) and one laptop. The laptops were both named Horatio (or rather, HORATIO and Horatio), and my laptop is named Woland. The next computer I buy will either be named Cuchulainn or Rosalita, which would be a bit of a change, obviously.

[eternitian]

I've only ever owned the one computer, and he's Locke, named for Final Fantasy III/VI's thief. He did a lot of music ripping, MP3 downloading, and wireless internet appropriation back when I first moved into my (later "our") old apartment.

Our cars have been Pearl (The Black Pearl), Leroy (a song reference), Skuld (the AMG character more than the goddess), and Olivia.

My 256-bit Nintendo video-gaming platform is Orlin, for reasons that take too long to explain.

[jcrow]

Being as how Pearl was my car, I'll make a note here that when I named her, I was desperate for some sense of freedom from my family. The line from Pirates of the Caribbean which spawn the name was Jack Sparrow's: "What a ship is...what the Pearl is...is freedom." I lived in that car during the period of time I was learning to drive and often sat out there, just sitting when I needed time away from my parents.

As for other naming conventions, my first computer was the Hive because it hummed like an angry hive of bees. Riffing on the theme, my next laptop was RedQueen. After that, my desktop machines were named after a series of story characters I was working with at the time: Alys, Nona, and Romana. My current PC is Sheena, named for my favorite character from Tales of Symphonia.

...ah, the things we do to procrastinate on NaNoWriMo...

[poetlady]

LOL, I love it. I don't name electronic things but my husband will say, "Where is Blackberry" (not, the blackberry or my blackberry) He uses the name of the device like A NAME and refers to it like a person.

I love that you name yours, that makes a lot of sense. He names our vehicles, do/did you ever name your car?

[aeirould]

This might be a guy thing, as I've named pretty much everything I interact with on a regular basis.

My first car, a white pinto wagon handed down by Mom, was dubbed St. Stephen, because everywhere he went the people all complained.

My first built computer was Deep Thought (Natch).

Ever since then, my naming convention has been Tolkein inspired. My MP3 player is Gwaihir and my 'puter is Manwe. My phone is Saruman, as he is not really to be trusted but does pack a lot of punch.

My first lappy was Mithrandir, and that name passes on to each new laptop (as Mithrandir has been incarnated more than once, it seems appropos).