Thursday, November 02, 2006

Windows Trivia

Over on the right I have a link to "The Old New Thing" which is a blog maintained by a guy who has been on the Windows programming team from I think the Windows 3.x days. Anyway, here is an interesting set of links I gleaned out of his archives of useless Windows trivia and interesting anecdotes.

Why are there 2 copies of Notepad?

Why is the registry called a hive?

Why does Windows 95 have functions called BEAR, BUNNY and PIGLET?

I'll take one of everything

Twenty foot long computer

Do not underestimate the power of the game Deer Hunter

Actual Death Threat

An insight into the Windows 95 startup sound

What is this Xerox directory doing in Program Files?

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