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Mine had a wombatinfestation, named as a riff on the Berkeley OCF 'natural disaster' hostnames (lightning, earthquake, plague, etc).

Probably because no one could remember how to spell it.

Did everyone skip class the day they taught about the tab key?

Every computer, every directory, every file, every command, every option and argument is maximum three keystrokes long: the first character, the second character and the tab key :-)

Usually you don’t have auto-complete for remote hostnames which is what the parent comment is about.

I would say that usually you do. But in hindsight, that's a behavior that came with SSH (via known_hosts and ssh/config). So back in the rlogin days, yeah, autocomplete of hostnames was not common.

I've been using ssh for a long time and somehow it's never occurred to me that hostnames would autocomplete, hah. Every day is a school day.