Codenames are totally unrelated name with the actual product/person. Codenames are generally used by military all over the world. One of the best example – Codenames were used by Indian military forces during atomic test in 1967-1974 as “Smiling Buddha”.
Now a days codenames are used by software companies for their products. Microsoft used many codenames such as longhorn for windows vista, Rome for Bing, Catapult for Microsoft Proxy server. You can have the complete list at wikipedia for Microosoft codenames.
Codenames can be used for anything which you want to abstract from others. Here is an online application which provides unique codenames. This application has collection of over 5 million codenames. Look at online-generator.
Here are some samples of codenames generated by the above…
Surreal Doorstop
Hollow Steel
Silver Moose
Heavy Winter
Rough Logbook
Appropriate Eagle
Harsh Creek
Deserted Metaphor
Lucky Tuba
Running Harsh Tea
Dreaded Vulture
Cold Steamy Fox
The overall purpose of this post is to provide you a small information about codename and its importance.
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