I love these kinds of stories. They're like the programmer's version of a detective story, with the twist that you always somehow learn some weird obscure fact

I love these kinds of stories. They're like the programmer's version of a detective story, with the twist that you always somehow learn some weird obscure fact about people or the Internet: - A web browser plug-in loads Google's homepage in the background. - There's a weird standard to writing Polish characters with diacritics. - Some Windows systems carry around this decades-old bitmapped font. I think it's similar to why I love those lists titled "X myths that programmers believe about Y". It's insane how varied the world is and how that comes out when we deal with as many domains as we do when programming.