Tag: Challenge
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 | (36/60) First YouTube Video | Challenge
Identify “Me at the zoo” as the first YouTube video (uploaded by co-founder Jawed Karim) and its content.
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.
The Nerdy Sixty | (34/60) Space Jam Forever | Challenge
Discover the Space Jam (1996) movie website, which remains online in its original mid-90s form.
The Nerdy Sixty | (33/60) Telnet Nyan Cat | Challenge
Use telnet to connect to a server that streams the Nyan Cat animation as ASCII art.
The Nerdy Sixty | (32/60) The First Webpage | Challenge
Explore the very first webpage Tim Berners-Lee created at CERN, describing the World Wide Web project.
The Nerdy Sixty | (31/60) YouTube’s Robot Uprising | Challenge
Find the Easter egg comments in YouTube’s robots.txt referencing the year 2000 and a robot uprising.