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Amusing computer related names
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:45 am
by andyb
Names that we use for computer companies and products
Dell = Hell
Packard Bell = Craphard Smell
IBM Deskstar = IBM Deathstar
Fujitsu = Fushitsu
I am sure there are a lot of names that we use for companies and products that we dont like, or just like to give a "pet hate" name to.
Go nuts people, anything goes.
Andy
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:09 am
by Tzupy
I'm not sure if the moderators should allow this thread, if those companies become aware of this name calling they might object.
Anyway, I use to say quite often MegaSh!t instead of M$.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:59 am
by nici
I would think companies have better things to do than read threads with weird versions of their name.
Anyway, Seagate could be Seagay. And im pretty sure someone has called Maxtor Crapxtor. And Scythe could be Shyte, at least the mounting on the Ninja Rev.B is very much so.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 1:39 pm
by YugenM
one of my friends refer to PayPal as GayPal.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:37 pm
by Lawrence Lee
Intersh*t Explorer.
Thermalcrap.
3DGayMan.
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:05 pm
by |Romeo|
Symantec = Satan
Outlook Express = Outhouse Distress
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 6:15 pm
by angelkiller
Amourek wrote:Intersh*t Explorer
Internet
Destroyer
GET FIREFOX!
http://www.getfirefox.com
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:25 pm
by qviri
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:43 pm
by NeilBlanchard
File Manager = File Mangler
Control-Alt-Delete = Three Finger Salute
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:30 am
by peteamer
Device Manager = Device Mangler
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:18 am
by kater
The low-low-dB company we all love for their marketing efforts - Thermalfake
Contrary to what lots of people might say, there'll always be Gigashite for me.
How about Microshaft?
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:02 am
by floffe
Interweb Exploder
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:01 am
by Ralf Hutter
I
really hate to perpetuate this thread, but, from back in the Browser Wars days:
Netscape = nutscrape
Internet Explorer = Internet Exploder*
*There were even
websites dedicated to this, as well as all sorts of neat jpegs and gifs of the logo.
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 11:36 am
by BrianE
Ralf Hutter wrote:
Netscape = nutscrape
Internet Explorer = Internet Exploder
Beat me to them!
I still say these once in a while...
I usually end up just adding or substituting a standard expletive on to part or all of the actual company name. Sometimes it comes out funny because it's so over-the-top angry sounding.
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:50 pm
by YugenM
another name for Gigabyte I've seen is "Junkabyte"
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:13 pm
by spookmineer
Funny that Gigabyte gets recommended in
this thread more then a few times then...
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:25 pm
by andyb
Now some of the innevitable: Accronyms, feel free to add your own.... guessing these should be quite easy.
System Cant See It
America Off Line
Cup-holder Doesn't Really Operate for Mugs
Defunct Operating System
How They Make Links
I Built Microsoft
Macintoshes Aren't Compatible
Pretty Confusing. May Cause Intense Anxiety
Spouting Claims of Ownership
Unable to Readily Locate
Unused Spittle Bottle (was good in 98 )
World Wide Wait
Andy
Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:30 pm
by qviri
andyb wrote:Pretty Confusing. May Cause Intense Anxiety
People Can't Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms takes this one by far...
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:33 pm
by floffe
Hmm, no AOHell yet
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:12 am
by Spare Tire
ThermalBake
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:50 am
by Vihta
CrackBook is my favourite.
Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:06 am
by peteamer
Technology
Without
An
Industry
Name
and I can't believe
nobody has yet offered:
Windoze
...or is only us young guns that use that one?.....
And from one of our very own elders:
PEBCAK.....
Problem
Exists
Between
Chair
And
Keyboard.....
Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:25 am
by andyb
E-Machines = Ebola-Machines (they are full of shit that just wants to bust out).
And the PSU's that they use, which having seen dozens of Ebola Machines I would say that the faliure rate is >80%
Bestec = Bustec
Bestec = Worsetec
Andy
Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:07 am
by floffe
peteamer wrote:Windoze
Eh, that just looks weird. If you're gonna point out the badness, it's better to use Winblows.
peteamer wrote:PEBCAK.....
That one is very good, although I've only seen it as PEBKAC. Huge difference, I know
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 1:13 pm
by =assassin=
Whenever I saw the Enermax NoiseTaker on a PC site, I always thought of calling it the Enermax Noise
Maker instead
Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:57 pm
by Slaugh
Nobody mentioned
HAL, the computer in
2001: A Space Odyssey. Apparently,
HAL was named so to indicate that it was one step ahead of IBM. Alphabetically "H" "A" "L" precede "I" "B" "M" by one letter. However, Arthur C Clarke denies it, claiming that
"HAL" is an acronym for "Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer". Who's right?
peteamer wrote:PEBCAK.....
Yeah! Even when they
RTFM
Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 1:37 am
by nici
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 9:57 am
by =assassin=
Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:56 pm
by jb_
Outlook Express = Outhouse Excess
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:19 pm
by fastturtle
Freaking Stupid Posts
