It's funny though as I had a very similar idea some years ago sticking much with virtual machines. I thought that if VM's disk image is just a file represented

It's funny though as I had a very similar idea some years ago sticking much with virtual machines. I thought that if VM's disk image is just a file represented by sequence of zeroes and ones and what if someone would generate a final number of those images starting from 0...0 to 1...1 and then probe them all on a given emulated hardware what would be a chance to discover some viable/useful software? How would we detect it? How would we know or reverse engineer it to understand what it could be used for and how to use it, interact with it etc.? So I ended up thinking that it would be a project similar to SETI but on a smaller scale (let's say if the image size would be limited to just 1Gb).