Hidden Jokes in old Microsoft Code: Bill 'Shake' Spear

Microsoft's programmers may have been creating some of the biggest and most important software titles back in the 1980s, but that didn’t stop them from joking around when crafting the code that powered them.
Yesterday, Microsoft and the Computer History Museum released the source code for early versions of Microsoft’s MS-DOS and Word programs, which one developer ciphered through and found hidden jokes.
Lines like “coded inline because we’re Gods,” were hidden throughout, the f-bomb gets dropped a few times, and programmers commented on their “dumb users.”

Read more here: Hidden jokes exposed in Microsoft's code | Fox News

 

[CountMike]

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Sorry Mike, again this is obviously xxxxuntruexxxx

Why do you think that ?

 

[adamf]

Why do you think that ?

Well only because I thought it was a joke. Thus the xxxxx un-true xxxxx bit.

Now I could be wrong - perhaps there really was spare space on CPU dies but everyone takes the p**s out of me for believing everything. I always assume unless there is a reason not to that I'm being told the truth.