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This reminded me of a story about the launch of WebTV by Microsoft back in the 90s. My memory is blurry but essentially the bug was in the signup or login code
by btbuilder 5y ago
This reminded me of a story about the launch of WebTV by Microsoft back in the 90s.
My memory is blurry but essentially the bug was in the signup or login code. When displaying an error to the user, the memory address to read the message from was pointing to an array of banned words. This lead to the user seeing no details of the error but instead just the word “f*k”.
Unfortunately the only reference I can find to it online is someone also trying to find it and failing: https://dotclue.org/archive/2006/12/002664/ https://dotclue.org/archive/2006/12/002664/
- lanewinfield 5y agoWell, there looks to be a comment on that very link you sent with the story: https://fadden.com/tech/webtv-anecdotes.html https://fadden.com/tech/webtv-anecdotes.html (and the dialog box: https://fadden.com/tech/images/fkdialog.jpg https://fadden.com/tech/images/fkdialog.jpg) And really laughed at it. Thanks for sharing.
- salamanderman 5y agoThat made my day. Wow.
- kristjansson 5y agoThe worlds first onomatopoeic bug.
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