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Best Worst Server Name Awards Compendium: Page 6 of 42

 

Submitted By: Barry Hite
Server Function:
Reasoning Behind Name: All of this particular sites servers were named after cartoon characters!
Server Name: Scrappy Doo

 

Submitted By: Dorian Hernandez
Server Function: Computational fluid dynamics calculations and visualizations
Reasoning Behind Name: Named after IBM's 'Deep Blue' supercomputer, because it was huge, and mostly purple...but the darn underscore messed up the DNS entry!!!
Server Name: deep_purple