50 Times Netizens Came Up With Funny WiFi Names To Troll Neighbors And Share Jokes

Scrolling through this list has brought me to the conclusion that while I've always considered myself a fairly creative person, I must actually be quite boring. Visit my home and you won't even need to ask, "What's the wifi called?" It's simple and straightforward: "Robyn Home." But that will probably soon change now that I've been re-booted to think outside of the router.

According to experts, your network name says a lot more about you than you might realize. Digital media and communications guru, Amber Burton, likens the naming of our networks to a “digital T-shirt.”

Burton says the names we choose send a message about our identities on our own terms. “It’s all woven into the fabric of how we choose to present and represent ourselves,” she told the Guardian.

Witty WiFi names are nothing new. Ask digital marketer, Federico Prandi. Around ten years ago, he launched something called The Berlin Wi-Fi Project. It's an interactive map of dozens of WiFi names across Germany's capital city.

"On the train home after a night out I was fidgeting with my phone and landed by chance on the list of available Wi-Fi networks," Prandi wrote on his blog.

It became apparent to him that there was more to people's network names than meets the eye. "I looked at the names changing as the train was speeding through the city. They were messages in bottles addressed to the universe as much as to a downstair neighbor," he said.

Prandi was intrigued. And after the train ride, he kept a note of every WiFi name he spotted across Berlin. "Some were home-design/">funny, others inscrutable," he says. "Every uneventful square in Charlottenburg or residential street in Wedding held a secret, a code I wanted to decipher."

Wu-Tang LAN, No Such Agency, Autopsy Suite, Osama Bin Laggin’, Winternet is coming, Laser Ninja Drachen Liga, I come from a LAN down under, La Kosher Nostra, Drop it like hotspot, Absurdistan are just some of the gems Prandi came across.

Prandi says his favorite WiFi names are the ones that broadcast something to the neighbours: ‘Please play the violin at a lower volume’, ‘It’s too loud by the convenient store” and ‘Your children are sh*t’.

He says he also came across some seemingly secret interactions. And it appeared people were communicating with each other via their network names. See! What did we say about modern-day Romeo and Juliet a bit earlier?

"I want to believe there’s a platonic, wireless flirting going on there,” the project creator said of one "router interaction" he spotted in his own neighborhood.