Computer humor Computer humor 0xDEADBEEF is a number written in hexadecimal notation, which happens to look like the English phrase "dead beef", due to the use of the letters A-F to represent the last six hexadecimal digits. ...more on Wikipedia about "0xdeadbeef"
Adobe Transient Witticisms is the name coined for an easter egg appearing in several versions of Adobe Photoshop. The easter egg can be viewed by accessing the alternate splash screen (in Mac OS this involves holding down the "command" key while choosing "About Photoshop" in the application menu; in Windows, hold Ctrl) and then option-clicking in the white space immediately above the scrolling credits. After the credits scroll through completely, the witticisms appear as a series of phrases in that particular spot. Holding down the option key makes the witticisms come faster as well as making the credits scroll more quickly. ...more on Wikipedia about "Adobe Transient Witticisms"
Blinkenlights is a hacker's neologism for diagnostic lights on old mainframe computers and modern network hardware. The Jargon File gives the following etymology: ...more on Wikipedia about "Blinkenlights"
Blue smoke (also magic smoke) is a joke in the electronics industry, stating that integrated circuits contain not a semiconductor die etched with many microscopic structures, but rather a mysterious substance known only as "blue smoke". In some variations, it is alleged that the major microchip production companies (especially the large microprocessor manufacturers) are involved in a conspiracy to keep the true nature of their products under wraps. ...more on Wikipedia about "Blue smoke (electronics)"
The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH), a fictional character created by Simon Travaglia, is a rogue system administrator who takes out his anger on lusers (his colleagues, bosses and anyone who gets in his way). ...more on Wikipedia about "BOFH"
In computer programming, COMEFROM (or COME FROM) is a control flow structure used in some programming languages. ...more on Wikipedia about "COMEFROM"
In computer science, duck typing is a term for the dynamic type system typical of some programming languages, such as with Smalltalk, where the variable value itself determines what it can do. It also implies that as long as an object implements a certain interface, it is interchangeable with any other object that implements the same interface, no matter whether the two have a related inheritance hierarchy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Duck typing"
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DWIM is an acronym meaning "Do What I Mean". It is often used in computer science in a humorous way when speaking about situations where the programmer's actual code does something (usually very subtly) different from what he/she thought it would do when going through it in his/her head. (This is usually the result of a thinko.) It originally was a feature of the Interlisp programming environment. ...more on Wikipedia about "DWIM"
A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, or computer program. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many western nations. The term is believed to originate in the movie Return of the Living Dead, where a military officer uses it as a code word for lost U.S. government containers of zombies created by a chemical spill, or from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which actual Easter eggs are visible in certain shots (under Frank N. Furter's throne, for example). ...more on Wikipedia about "Easter egg (virtual)"
An elephant in Cairo is a term used in computer programming to describe a piece of test data that is designed to ensure that an algorithm is working. The term derives from a humorous essay circulated on the Internet and published in Byte magazine that described how various professions would go about hunting elephants, with programmers following the algorithm: ...more on Wikipedia about "Elephant in Cairo"
The evil bit is an IP packet header field proposed in RFC 3514, a humorous April 1st RFC from 2003. The RFC recommended that an unused bit in the IPv4 packet header be reserved for indicating whether a packet had malign intent, thus making computer security engineering an easy problem. ...more on Wikipedia about "Evil bit"
Hacker culture and especially the artificial intelligence community at MIT has invented a number of humorous "koans" about computer science; most of these are recorded in an appendix to the Jargon File, where they are called AI Koans. Most do not fit the normal definition of koan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hacker koan"
Help desk humor is a genre of humor that arose toward the end of the 20th century in conjunction with the rise of the personal computer. With more common usage of computers came an accompanying rise in calls to help desks for troubleshooting and technical support. ...more on Wikipedia about "Help desk humor"
Honor system viruses or signature viruses are not actual computer viruses but Internet jokes or memes that are passed around voluntarily. ...more on Wikipedia about "Honor system virus"
The Internet Oracle (historically known as The Usenet Oracle) is a collaborative effort at collective humor in a pseudo-Socratic question-and-answer format. ...more on Wikipedia about "Internet Oracle"
Joy of Tech is a webcomic created by Nitrozac and Snaggy, whose real names are Liza Schmalcel and Bruce Evans. Both are Canadians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joy of Tech"
One-banana problem is jargon sometimes used by persons involved in the operation of large computer systems. It indicates a low level of difficulty. ...more on Wikipedia about "One-banana problem"
PC Load Letter is an error message sometimes encountered when printing on older HP Laserjet printers. ...more on Wikipedia about "PC Load Letter"
Pigle.ask is the name of a hacking text file created in the early 1990s on a VAX/ VMS system, known for its cryptic yet detailed error messages. At the time it was created, it was known to make anyone familiar with a DEC VAX system begin laughing loudly. These days it looks like a bunch of gobbeldygook that inspires little laughter. ...more on Wikipedia about "Pigle.ask"
The Book of Mozilla is a well-known computer Easter egg found in the Netscape and Mozilla series of web browsers. The Easter Egg is viewed by having the browser go to the page about:mozilla. ...more on Wikipedia about "The Book of Mozilla"
User Friendly is an online daily comic strip about the staff of a small, fictional internet service provider, Columbia Internet. The strip's humor tends to be centered around technology jokes and geek humor. ...more on Wikipedia about "User Friendly" http://www.shortopedia.com moments.
User Friendly characters are the characters that feature on the webcomic User Friendly. ...more on Wikipedia about "User Friendly characters"
Write Only Memory (WOM) is the logical converse of Read Only Memory (ROM). It is generally only proposed as a joke since there is no practical use for such a thing; since write-only memory cannot, by definition, be read, any information that is written to it will simply be lost. ...more on Wikipedia about "Write Only Memory"
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