Tag: Solution
The Nerdy Sixty | (37/60) First Registered Domain | Solution
Solution: Find out that symbolics.com was the first .com domain name ever registered.
The Nerdy Sixty | (36/60) First YouTube Video | Solution
Solution: 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 | Solution
Solution: 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 | Solution
Solution: Discover the Space Jam (1996) movie website, which remains online in its original mid-90s form.
The Nerdy Sixty | (33/60) Telnet Nyan Cat | Solution
Solution: Use telnet to connect to a server that streams the Nyan Cat animation as ASCII art.
The Nerdy Sixty | (32/60) The First Webpage | Solution
Solution: Explore the very first webpage Tim Berners-Lee created at CERN, describing the World Wide Web project.
The Nerdy Sixty | (30/60) Obfuscated C Contest | Solution
Solution: Learn about the IOCCC (International Obfuscated C Code Contest), which invites developers to submit intentionally obscured yet ingenious C programs.
The Nerdy Sixty | (29/60) NaN NaN NaN… | Solution
Solution: See how multiplying the string “NaN” yields a repeated pattern reminiscent of the Batman theme.
The Nerdy Sixty | (28/60) Fork Bomb | Solution
Solution: Explain the bash fork bomb `:(){ :|:& };:`, which recursively spawns itself, quickly crashing the system.
The Nerdy Sixty | (27/60) Anti-Gravity Python | Solution
Solution: Use Python’s antigravity module to open the famous XKCD comic about Python (import antigravity).
