Tag: Solution

Solution: Learn that the “Hello, World!” program first appeared in Brian Kernighan’s 1974 programming examples and was popularized by the 1978 K&R C book.

Solution: Understand that on January 19, 2038, 32-bit Unix time will overflow, potentially causing software that uses 32-bit time_t to fail (similar to Y2K, but for Unix timestamps).

Solution: Discover Emacs’s “doctor” mode, an ELIZA-like chatbot from the 1960s embedded in the editor.

Solution: Install the `bb` package to watch a retro 3D ASCII art demo animation in your terminal.

Solution: Install and play the zen game ‘robotfindskitten’, where you roam as a robot (#) to find the kitten among random items.

Solution: Use the Tetris game included in BSD Games (`tetris-bsd`) or the one built into Emacs (`M-x tetris`) to play Tetris in a terminal environment.

Solution: Install the snake game (for example via the BSD games package or nsnake) to play the classic Snake in your terminal.

Solution: Discover how Atari’s Adventure (1979) hid the creator’s name, marking the first known Easter egg in a video game.

Solution: Learn about the famous incident in 1947 when a moth was found in a computer, coining the term ‘bug’.

Solution: Understand the calendar switch of 1752: 11 days were omitted when the British Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.