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Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM

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388 points zdw | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 13:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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ryeguy_24 ◴[24 Jun 25 14:26 UTC] No.44366630[source]▶
How in the world did someone find this? The fact that things like this are found is a really an interesting revelation about the collective productivity of the humans race on the planet - all pushing the boundaries of knowledge in everything that we know. There is a scientist in the basement somewhere spending his/her whole life on researching a very small part of the world and maybe it will result in a spectacular finding. Go human race.
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1. noisy_boy ◴[24 Jun 25 15:37 UTC] No.44367374[source]▶
> How in the world did someone find this?

These people are Computing Archeologists - I don't know if that is a formal category but that is how I think of them. They go deeper into software and hardware of the past and bring back such gems before those are lost forever to the tides of e-waste.

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2. rightbyte ◴[25 Jun 25 12:42 UTC] No.44376638[source]▶
"Computing Archeologist" is such a nice word.

For some reason I really enjoy "computer archeology" about Super Mario 3 and 64. There is even a total decompile of 64.