Code Monkeys
what is the hardest substance known to mankind?
The UK's favourite excuse for cancelled plans, bad moods, and delayed trains. It's always this.
the weather (rain)
This Nintendo handheld let you play Tetris on the bus in the 90s, using four AA batteries that died in 45 minutes.
the Game Boi
The chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table.
au like the drink innit
The title of the very first video ever uploaded to YouTube, back in 2005
me at the zoo
In Git, this command records your staged changes to the local repository. .
git commit
This UK city hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics, built a lot of infrastructure, and then charged you £15 to park near it.
London
These tiny virtual pets beeped at you during double maths. You ignored them. They died. You still feel guilty.
What is a Tamagotchi?
The number of bones in an adult human body. Yes, someone in your team will guess 12 probably.
if your within 10 then ill give it
206
This meme shows a dog sitting calmly in a room engulfed in flames
this is fine
This British computer scientist invented the World Wide Web in 1989. Basically the reason you're all employed.
Tim Berners-Lee?
This BBC soap opera is set in fictional Walford, and has been on since 1985.
EastEnders
Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger — and this fifth Spice Girl, who went on to marry a very famous footballer.
posh
The only metal that is liquid at room temperature, with the chemical symbol Hg
freddie mercury
This social network, launched in 2003, let teens plaster their profiles with autoplay music and pick a "Top 8" friends — brutally ranking their mates publicly.
myspace
In Python, this built-in function returns the number of items in a list. Short, sweet, and actually works — unlike some code reviews.
len()
Everyone calls it Big Ben, but that's actually the bell. This is the correct name of the tower itself, renamed in 2012.
Elizabeth Tower
This dial-up internet service greeted you with "You've Got Mail!" and a sound like a robot having a breakdown.
aol
This is the unit of electrical resistance, named after a German physicist.
ohm
The original name of Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg launched it from his Harvard dorm room in 2004.
thefacebook
This architectural pattern splits an application into Model, View, and Controller. It's not a personality disorder, it's good software design.
MVC (Model-View-Controller)
Forget the lion and the bulldog, the UK's OFFICIAL national animal is this magical beast. Completely real, legally speaking.
unicorn
This 90s website let kids build their own homepage with flashing text, animated GIFs, and a visitor hit counter.
geocities
The speed of light in a vacuum, to the nearest hundred million metres per second.
win if you get in between 20,000
300.000ms
This programming language, created by Brendan Eich in just 10 days in 1995, now powers virtually every website on the internet.
javascript