That shouldn't be a surprise - it's well documented. Nowadays it's expected that there will be so-called "Easter eggs" in any video game. There have always been in-jokes in animated movies (not to mention the idea of a 'blooper reel' for animated characters).
Probably the earliest example of humo(u)r of which I have personal experience was with TECO (the text editor used on many early DEC systems). The command to create a new file (rather than edit an existing one) was "MAKE filename". If you typed "MAKE LOVE", it would create a file called LOVE, as told. But it would also respond with "NOT WAR?". And, of course, there is amazing Grace's remark about the first example of an actual bug being found. It might not be the world's best joke, but it was definitely a joke. On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 09:40:07AM +1000, Brian Walters wrote: > Nice to see that even programmers can have a sense of humour. > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > > > > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:45:34 +0100, "Bob W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Have a look at this webpage: > > > > http://www.nordicgroup.us/s78/flashlights.html > > > > Scroll down to the section headed 'Commercial Flashlight Holders' and > > take a look at the frame on the right hand side. There's a teensy > > little flea wandering around inside it. > > > > How strange. > > > > It's an animated gif. Presumably the programmer who wrote the page was > > a bit bored at the time. > > > > Bob > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - Accessible with your email software > or over the web > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
