Some time ago,
ComputerWorld ran a story on
whimsical names for servers.
I recall that at my university,
one academic department had machines
named up and down.
I'm sure this led to some strange
Who's on First?-style
messages.¹
The early email servers at Microsoft were
named after
muppets.
I'm guessing that this came from the term
Multiport Transceiver, generally abbreviated
MPT and pronounced like the word muppet.
(Nowadays, we call these things routers.)
When the IT department ran out of names of muppets,
they started using names of trees.
(Mine was ironwood.)
Nowadays, the names of the email servers are
functional and consequently extremely boring.
For example, RED06FT010 is a server
located in Redmond, and the other digits and letters
indicate where the server can be found.
Sorry, I don't know how to decode the values.
I've never needed to visit a server in person.
¹ I want to think this was the physics department,
and that they had four other servers named
charm,
strange,
top,
and
bottom.