Tag: Challenge
The Nerdy Sixty | (45/60) Hidden Job Posting | Challenge
Find the Automattic recruitment Easter egg: an X-hacker header inviting you to join Automattic (WordPress.com) if you see it.
The Nerdy Sixty | (44/60) I’m a Teapot | Challenge
Recognize HTTP 418 “I’m a teapot” as an April Fools’ joke status code from RFC 2324, indicating a server refuses to brew coffee because it’s a teapot.
The Nerdy Sixty | (43/60) Nmap Hacker Output | Challenge
Use Nmap’s “-oS” option for “script kiddie” output, which prints the scan results in leet-speak (substituting letters with numbers/symbols).
The Nerdy Sixty | (42/60) Traceroute to a Galaxy Far Away | Challenge
Traceroute to obiwan.scrye.net to see the network hops named after lines from the Star Wars opening crawl (and beyond).
The Nerdy Sixty | (41/60) ASCII Star Wars | Challenge
Use telnet to connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl and watch an ASCII animation of Star Wars.
The Nerdy Sixty | (40/60) Eternal September | Challenge
Understand “Eternal September” as the notion that ever since AOL opened Usenet to its users in September 1993, the influx of new users never stopped, effectively making it always feel like September (the time when new college freshmen would join).
The Nerdy Sixty | (39/60) Godwin’s Law | Challenge
Explain Godwin’s Law: as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison to Hitler or Nazis approaches 1.
The Nerdy Sixty | (38/60) The Konami Code Online | Challenge
Recognize the ‘Konami Code’ as a common trigger for web Easter eggs (Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A).
The Nerdy Sixty | (37/60) First Registered Domain | Challenge
Find out that symbolics.com was the first .com domain name ever registered.
The Nerdy Sixty | (35/60) Google’s Killer-Robots.txt | Challenge
Learn about Google’s 2014 Easter egg file “killer-robots.txt” that told the T-800 and T-1000 not to terminate Google’s founders.