What’s a namber? A namber is a word that acts as a mnemonic for a number. For example, 65 is drum, and 181 is push.

A namber address uses an arbitrarily-chosen list of nambers to represent each of the numbers from 0 to 255 in order to assemble four words to represent any IP address. Metafilter.com’s namber is earth.frog.brown.tooth, and mysteryrobot.com conveniently provides translation and forwarding to the real IP address. —What’s a namber? (Metafilter)

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  • Thanks, Rosemary!

    Will, I probably have a chance of remembering those words, while I'd have to look up the numbers every time. But you're right, the domain name is even simpler to remember.

  • Dennis, here are your nambers:
    jerz.setonhill.edu = earth.close.down.empty
    blogs.setonhill.edu = smoke.party.moon.bed

  • I don't even know what to say - I don't think usability testing would reveal this to be any easier than remembering the actual address. Especially when you could just remember "metafilter.com". :-)

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