There is software/a technology company/a game named after MANY of the elements in the periodic table - Sopuli

edit: many, not most Based on a few quick searches, here’s what I came up with. You can tell that I got pretty bored once I got to the Lanthanide series and beyond. The ones without “:” are the ones I didn’t check, as I doubt there’s any software called “Dysprosium” and “Roentgenium”, but I would love to be proven wrong! One thing of note, I included a few racehorses are named after elements (most of which from the 1800s, which is interesting) 1 - H - Hydrogen: open-source drum machine 2 - He - Helium: Chromium-based browser, “Helium10” is e-commerce software 3 - Li - Lithium: “Li3”, formerly “lithium”, is a PHP web framework, optimization mod for Minecraft 4 - Be - Beryllium: proprietary lathe software written in Python 5 - B - Boron: N/A? 6 - C - Carbon: C-based API developed by Apple to port classic Mac apps to MacOS X, programming language developed by Google to be interoperable with C++, “Karbon” is some accounting management software 7 - N - Nitrogen: Financial planning software (previously “Riskalyze”). Funnily enough, there is also a racehorse called “Nitrogen” which, according to Wikipedia, was the 2024 “Canadian Champion Two-Year-Old Filly”! 8 - O - Oxygen: default font in KDE, “OxygenOS” is the skin of Android in (global) OnePlus phones. “Oxygen XML editor” is self-explanatory. Again, there is a racehorse called “Oxygen” which Wikipedia says was regarded as the “leading two-year-old filly in the South of England in 1830”! 9 - F - Fluorine: some productivity app 10 - Ne - Neon: game engine, music visualisation software, “KDE Neon” is a distro developed by KDE 11 - Na - Sodium: Minecraft optimization mod, MMO game for PS3, and interestingly enough, another racehorse! 12 - Mg - Magnesium: port of the “Sodium” Minecraft optimization mod for Forge 13 - Al - Aluminium: Google’s “Aluminium OS” (replacement for ChromeOS), various software designed for manufacturing/designing aluminium parts 14 - Si - Silicon: “Silicon IDE” is self explanatory, “Silicon Labs” is a Japanese technology company, Apple’s processors are known as “Apple Silicon”, you of course have “Silicon Valley” 15 - P - Phosphorus: some IoT enterprise solution. This is also yet another racehorse, which won the 1837 Epsom Derby despite having a leg injury! 16 - S - Sulfur/Sulphur: a modern old-school action-adventure game, codename for Fedora 9. “Sulphur Nimbus: Hel’s Elixir” is a game on itch.io [http://itch.io] where you control a hippogriff, interesting! 17 - Cl - Chlorine: library to interact with OpenCL devices 18 - Ar - Argon: CAD modelling software, tool for developing Roblox games. “Argon2” is a cryptographic key derivation function that won the 2015 Password Hashing Competition 19 - K - Potassium: “Kalium” (where we get the symbol “K” from!) is the name of a web framework that handle asynchronous microservices 20 - Ca - Calcium: digital health software, web calendar by “Brown Bear Software” 21 - Sc - Scandium: Automation tool for software testing. One thing of note, a company called “Element 21” (a golf and fishing equipment company) paid the Russian Federal Space Agency to launch a golf ball into space! 22 - Ti - Titanium: Sophisticated malware discovered in 2019 by Kaspersky Lab. “Titanium SDK” is used to develop native Android and iOS apps using JavaScript. 23 - V - Vanadium: Browser developed by the GrapheneOS team 24 - Cr - Chromium: The backbone of all the modern browsers, aside from Firefox and its forks, OpenGL implementation 25 - Mn - Manganese: Codename for Windows 10 20H2 apparently? 26 - Fe - Iron: C# library company (they have a suite of .NET apps prefixed with “Iron”), “IronFox” is a privacy-focused Android browser 27 - Co - Cobalt: codename for v6.0 of PalmOS, action side-scrolling game developed by Mojang, CAD modelling program 28 - Ni - Nickel: some payment processor 29 - Cu - Copper: some web-based project management tool 30 - Zn - Zinc: “Zinc Application Platform” is used for creating GUI apps. “OpenZinc” is a project to preserve v1.0 to v4.2 of the former. It’s also ANOTHER racehorse! 31 - Ga - Gallium: “Gallium3D” is a set of open-source graphics drivers that is part of the Mesa library of graphics drivers. “GalliumOS” is a discontinued OS targeting Chromebooks 32 - Ge - Germanium: Codename for Windows 11 24H2 33 - As - Arsenic: audience response system (whatever that is?), some online gaming website 34 - Se - Selenium: software testing framework 35 - Br - Bromine: codename for Windows 11 26H2 (an apt name, it sounds very smelly with lots of AI “features”…). “Bromite”, the Chromium-based browser, is pretty close but is an ion containing bromine (BrO2-) 36 - Kr - Krypton: a programming language 37 - Rb - Rubidium: N/A? 38 - Sr - Strontium: Russian hacker group “Fancy Bear” is sometimes called “STRONTIUM” 39 - Y - Yttrium: Russian hacker group “Cozy Bear” is sometimes called “YTTRIUM” 40 - Zr - Zirconium: N/A? 41 - Nb - Niobium: N/A? 42 - Mo - Molybdenum: N/A? 43 - Tc - Technetium: N/A? 44 - Ru - Ruthenium: N/A? 45 - Rh - Rhodium: N/A? 46 - Pd - Palladium: A 1958 CIA program to study and interfere Soviet radar (yes really) 47 - Ag - Silver: 2nd gen Pokemon game, various video game characters named Silver 48 - Cd - Cadmium: N/A? 49 - In - Indium: N/A? 50 - Sn - Tin: newsreader software 51 - Sb - Antimony: CAD software 52 - Te - Tellurium: some Python package about biology stuff idk 53 - I - Iodine: some AI software used in hospitals, idk 54 - Xe - Xenon: Dutch software used in 6 countries to find tax evaders (yes really), codename for Xbox 360 55 - Cs - Caesium/Cesium: library specialising in “3D geospatial visualisation” (i.e. globes) 56 - Ba - Barium: N/A? 57 - La - Lanthanum: N/A? 58 - Ce - Cerium 59 - Pr - Praseodymium 60 - Nd - Neodymium 61 - Pm - Promethium 62 - Sm - Samarium 63 - Eu - Europium 64 - Gd - Gadolinium 65 - Tb - Terbium 66 - Dy - Dysprosium 67 - Ho - Holmium 68 - Er - Erbium 69 - Tm - Thulium 70 - Yb - Ytterbium 71 - Lu - Lutetium 72 - Hf - Hafnium 73 - Ta - Tantalum 74 - W - Tungsten: “WolframAlpha” is a supercharged version of the calculator (“Wolfram” is where we get the W!), “Wolfram Language” is used in the computing program “Wolfram Mathematica” 75 - Re - Rhenium 76 - Os - Osmium: N/A? 77 - Ir - Iridium 78 - Pt - Platinum: 4th gen pokemon game 79 - Au - Gold: 2nd gen Pokemon game and its protagonist 80 - Hg - Mercury: software developed by the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre to analyze crystal structures 81 - Tl - Thallium 82 - Pb - Lead: N/A? 83 - Bi - Bismuth: programming language, tiling windows add-on for KDE Plasma 84 - Po - Polonium: N/A? 85 - At - Astatine 86 - Rn - Radon 87 - Fr - Francium 88 - Ra - Radium 89 - Ac - Actinium 90 - Th - Thorium 91 - Pa - Protactinium 92 - U - Uranium: backup software 93 - Np - Neptunium: N/A? 94 - Pu - Plutonium: Call of Duty mod 95 - Am - Americium 96 - Cm - Curium 97 - Bk - Berkelium 98 - Cf - Californium 99 - Es - Einsteinium 100 - Fm - Fermium 101 - Md - Mendelevium: N/A? 102 - No - Nobelium 103 - Lr - Lawrencium 104 - Rf - Rutherfordium 105 - Db - Dubnium 106 - Sg - Seaborgium 107 - Bh - Bohrium 108 - Hs - Hassium 109 - Mt - Meitnerium 110 - Ds - Darmstadtium 111 - Rg - Roentgenium 112 - Cn - Copernicium 113 - Nh - Nihonium 114 - Fl - Flerovium 115 - Mc - Moscovium 116 - Lv - Livermorium 117 - Ts - Tennessine 118 - Og - Oganesson: free open-source cache deleter? Weird Is this the right community to post this in? It’s not really a meme, but it’s not very serious either… Now I need to get back to doing chemistry homework…