Why are the Rinkeby and Ropsten testnets named after Swedish locations?
I know what they are but am wondering why they were named this way.
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1Maybe unrelated to Ethereum, but opinion based? I think you were too fast to close this one. – Ismael Oct 25 '17 at 2:52
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1I don't see how this is even unrelated, and definitely not opinion-based – Marius Waldal Oct 27 '17 at 7:32
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1This is about a historical fact of why or who named them. That’s what I want to know. – JohnAllen Oct 27 '17 at 7:33
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The question alone is informative in that it conveys the origin of the testnets' names. – JohnAllen Nov 9 '17 at 2:12
- Morden: a subway station in London
- Ropsten: a metro station in Stockholm
- Rinkeby: a metro station in Stockholm
- Kovan: a subway station in Singapore
Testnets are named after train stations as a convention, usually where the respective testnet maintainers are based from.
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1Which was also the basis for a funny joke on [April Fools day post]((blog.ethereum.org/2017/04/01/ethereum-dev-roundup-q1)) on the Ethereum blog: "we have launched two new testnets, Qinghuadongluxikou and Hongqiao Airport Terminal 2" =D – Sergei Tikhomirov Jan 9 '18 at 22:01
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