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23 awesome license plates for computer geeks

We here at Pingdom are computer geeks, and proud of it. None of us have any geeky vanity plates (custom license plates) on our cars, though. But others have, and we love those. This post is a gallery of pictures of some of the coolest vanity plates we have ever seen, collected from around the Web.

Some of the pictures have explanations, but mostly they are pretty self explanatory.

Enjoy! 🙂

This guy googled his own car

Apparently Google did NOT approve and in the end he didn’t get to keep it. (This happened in Sweden, home of Pingdom.)

080822-google
Photo by Joakim Jardenberg.

Good, old-fashioned networking

080822-ethrnet
Photo by John C Abell.

But others prefer wireless

080822-80211n
Photo by John C Abell.

Could this guy possibly be an Apple fan?

080822-macgeek
Photo by Darrin Dishong.

A fresh start in life

080822-reboot
Photo by wRen.

Leet speak hacker pride

080822-tehhckr
Photo by Erica Douglass.

Is the car Open Source too?

080822-opnsrc
Found over at Oddee.

Someone who’s into graphics

RGBA is the RGB color model (red, green, blue) with added alpha (transparency). It is a common format in the graphics field, used for example in the PNG image format.

080822-rgba
Photo by Ori Neidich.

A programmer’s definition of white

#FFFFFF is the hexadecimal color code for white.

080822-ffffff
Photo by Jon Canady.

Geek Away From Keyboard

080822-geekafk
Photo by Arnold Sandoval.

The plate every sysadmin wants

080822-suroot
Photo by Tony.

Don’t shut down that car

For people not familiar with Windows, Alt-F4 shuts down a program, or Windows itself if no programs are running.

080822-altf4
Photo by Brandon Debes.

Geek, and proud of it

080822-mrgeek
Photo by Ripbud.

A PHP programmer hits the road

080822-phpdude
Photo by John C Abell.

When 32 bits just aren’t enough

080822-64bits
Photo by Marc Nozell.

Hopefully he won’t get Syntax Error behind the wheel

080822-syntxerr
Photo by Jon.

Markup fanatic?

080822-xml
Photo by Anirvan.

http://my.car

080822-http
Photo by Steven Pam.

Someone who likes to talk?

080822-podcast
Photo by Dan York.

Geek lover

If this is a woman’s car, did her boyfriend buy it for her (especially the license plate)?
080822-geeklvr
Photo by computationally.intr actable.

Showing some Linux love

080822-lnxgeek
Photo by Adam Vandenberg.

More Linux love

080822-tux
Photo by Amarand Agasi.

Dig(g) this bike

080822-digg
Photo by Cybersleeper.

Do you feel that we missed out on an awesome vanity plate you have seen somewhere? Post a link in the comments!

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