Legendary Coding Hacks and Pranks
In 1999, this "millennium bug" caused a global panic, but turned out to be more bark than byte.
What is the Y2K bug?
This Finnish student created the Linux kernel in 1991, leading to a system that's more than just a "penguin in a tux."
Who is Linus Torvalds?
This tool, often paired with Docker, helps manage containerized applications across clusters and sounds like it could be a Greek navigator.
What is Kubernetes?
This sci-fi film series features a galaxy far, far away and a famous line about "the Force."
What is Star Wars?
This Google search Easter egg lets you play a classic game directly in your browser when you type "play snake."
What is Google Snake?
This famous 1988 worm slithered through the internet, causing massive disruptions and becoming the first felony conviction in the U.S. under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
What is the Morris Worm?
In 1998, this company opened up its Netscape Navigator code, which later evolved into the web browser we now know as Firefox. Talk about navigating change!
What is Mozilla?
This infrastructure as code tool shares its name with a geological term, allowing you to create your cloud infrastructure with ease.
What is Terraform?
In this 1999 film, Neo discovers the shocking truth about reality from Morpheus and takes the red pill.
What is The Matrix?
In 1980, this game featured the first known Easter egg, hidden by its programmer, Warren Robinett, revealing his name when found.
What is Adventure?
Developed by a teenage "cracker" in 1994, this software trick turned Microsoft's flagship product into "Micro$oft" by bypassing its registration system.
What is the Aardvark hack?
The most used HTTP Server, often seen as the backbone of the internet, is maintained by this foundation, named after a Native American tribe and famous for its "feather in the cap" logo.
What is the Apache Software Foundation?
This CI/CD tool springs into action with every commit to your repository, orchestrating builds, tests, and deployments. It's the butler of your DevOps pipeline.
What is Jenkins?
This cult classic TV show, which aired from 2002-2003, follows the adventures of Captain Mal Reynolds and his crew aboard the spaceship Serenity.
What is Firefly?
This command, when run in many Unix-based systems, outputs a whimsical description of a creature that enjoys saying things in ASCII to people.
What is apt-get moo?
In 2010, this "stux" of a worm made headlines by targeting industrial control systems, proving that even computers can get wormholes.
What is Stuxnet?
This open-source version control system, created by Linus Torvalds in 2005, helps developers track changes.
What is Git?
This monitoring and logging tool with a catchy name makes sure your applications and infrastructure are always observed because "if you're not paranoid, you're not paying attention."
What is Datadog?
What is Back to the Future?
In the early versions of Microsoft Excel, this secret feature let users access a flight simulator by following a specific set of steps.
What is the Excel Flight Simulator?
Known for his audacious phone phreaking exploits in the 1970s, this prankster's blue box led to free long-distance calls, making Ma Bell really "dialed" up.
Who is John Draper, a.k.a. Captain Crunch?
The "father of free software," this MIT hacker started the GNU Project in 1983, aiming to create a completely free Unix-like operating system.
Who is Richard Stallman?
This tool, with its logo resembling a whale, helps manage container deployment and keeps applications “afloat” in any environment.
What is Docker?
This 1998 animated series, known for its blend of space opera, noir, and western genres, follows a group of bounty hunters traveling in a spaceship.
What is Cowboy Bebop?
This 1983 operating system had a hidden space-themed game called "Norton Commander," accessible through a specific sequence of commands.
What is MS-DOS?